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This is a list of places in the United States named for Lewis Cass:
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This is a list of places in the United States named for Lewis Cass:
In addition, Bartow County, Georgia was formerly Cass County, until after the American Civil War. (Cass County, North Dakota is not named for Lewis Cass but for railroad executive George Washington Cass.)
Note: The Elliott-Larsen Building in Lansing, Michigan had been named for Lewis Cass until 2020, when Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer renamed the building for two Michigan civil rights pioneers, rather than Cass, a slaveholder who supported the expansion of slavery and expulsion of Native Americans from their lands. [3]
Note: Southwest Heritage Intermediate School District in Cass County, Michigan had been named Cass County ISD until 2021. The school board renamed the district after a historical reevaluation of namesake Lewis Cass. [5]
Note: Cass Street in Traverse City, Michigan and in Cadillac, Michigan were named for Lewis Cass's nephew, George Washington Cass.
Clayton may refer to:
Lewis Cass was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. A slave owner himself, he was a leading spokesman for the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which at the time held the idea that people in each U.S state should have the right to decide on whether to permit or prohibit slavery, believing in the idea of states rights.
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Lake Township may refer to:
The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
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