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Cass, like many men of his conflicted era, was a complicated figure. Father of Stephen Douglas' "popular sovereignty." Lost the presidency in 1848 due partly to a Free Soil 3d party schism. Resigned in protest as Buchanan's Sec of State, seeing Buchanan too soft on secession.https://twitter.com/LaurenMGibbons/status/1277968603040542725 …
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is changing the name of the Lewis Cass state office building to the Elliott-Larsen building. Significant for several reasons. Lewis Cass, who served as Michigan's territorial governor and as a US Senator, was a slaveowner.
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