This man commissioned surveyor John Fulton to challenge the line established by William Harris at the behest of Edward Tiffin.
This man commissioned surveyor John Fulton to challenge the line established by William Harris at the behest of Edward Tiffin. This politician and Duncan McArthur represented the United States at the signing of the Treaty of Fort Meigs. He led an expedition that erroneously determined the northern Red Cedar Lake, which was thereafter renamed for him, to be the source of the Mississippi. He claimed that Congress did not possess the "unlimited power of legislation" in the territories and thus advocated popular sovereignty in his (*) Nicholson letter. He served as Jackson's second Secretary of War and Buchanan's first Secretary of State, and ran with William Orlando Butler on a ticket that split votes with the Free Soil party and thus lost to Zachary Taylor in 1848. For 10 points, name this prominent mid-19th-century Michigan politician.
This man commissioned surveyor John Fulton to challenge the line established by William Harris at the behest of Edward Tiffin.
Lewis Cass