1. Moses Henry Dodge was an American politician and military officer who was Democratic member to the US House of Representatives and US Senate, Territorial Governor of Wisconsin and a veteran of the Black Hawk War.
21 Facts About Henry Dodge
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Henry Dodge was the half-brother of Missouri Senator Lewis F Linn.
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Henry Dodge was the son of Israel Dodge and Nancy Hunter Dodge.
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Henry Dodge was born in Vincennes when Nancy stopped over to visit Israel on her way from Kaskaskia to Louisville.
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In 1788 Israel abandoned the family and Henry Dodge was raised by his mother.
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In 1805 Henry Dodge was appointed deputy sheriff, reporting to his father.
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In 1806 Henry Dodge was recruited by Aaron Burr to participate in Burr's spurious attempt at creating a new country in the southwest, an incident known as the Burr conspiracy.
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Henry Dodge was indicted as a participant in the conspiracy, but the charges were dropped.
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Henry Dodge finished the war as a major general of the Missouri Militia.
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Henry Dodge's crowning achievement was saving about 150 Miami Indians from certain massacre after their raid on the Boone's Lick settlement in the summer of 1814.
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Henry Dodge emigrated with his large family and slaves inherited from his father to the US Mineral District in early July 1827.
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Henry Dodge rose to prominence during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
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Henry Dodge served as colonel; one of his captains was Nathan Boone, Daniel Boone's youngest son.
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Henry Dodge was an Indian fighter, most noted for his 1835 peace mission commissioned by President Andrew Jackson, who had called out the US Dragoons to assist.
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Henry Dodge was the first Territorial governor of Wisconsin Territory from 1836 to 1841 and again from 1845 to 1848, an area which encompassed what became the states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
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In between his two terms as governor, Henry Dodge was elected as a non-voting Democratic delegate to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses representing Wisconsin Territory's at-large congressional district.
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Henry Dodge declined the opportunity to have his name put forward for the Presidency of the United States at the 1844 Democratic National Convention.
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Henry Dodge was loyal to Martin Van Buren and both men opposed the annexation of Texas.
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Henry Dodge turned down the appointment of Territorial Governor of Washington from Franklin Pierce in 1857.
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Henry Dodge is interred at the Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington.
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Fort Clark, the US Army post built near the present-day location of Fort Henry Dodge, Iowa, was renamed for Senator Henry Dodge around 1850.