2-356-061 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lewis Cass, American soldier, statesman and historian, (c1880). Cass served in the US Army as a Brigadier-General in the War of 1812 against the British. During the course of his long political career, he served as Governor of the Michigan Territory (1813-1831) Secretary of State for War (1831-1836), US Ambassador to France (1836-1842), Senator for Michigan (1845-1857) and US Secretary of State (1857-1860). Cass ran unsuccessfull for President in 1848, losing the election to Zachary Taylor. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.