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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Frémont, John Charles
Frémont, John Charles, a Senator from California; born in Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1813; pursued classical studies and attended Charleston College 1828-1830; instructor in mathematics in the United States Navy 1833-1835; civil engineer assistant of Nicollet in 1838 and 1839, exploring the territory between the Missouri River and the northern boundary of the United States; appointed second lieutenant of Topographical Engineers of the United States Army July 7, 1838; commenced in 1842 his explorations and surveys for an overland route from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; major of a battalion of California Volunteers in 1846; appointed lieutenant colonel of United States Mounted Rifles in 1846 and ordered to act as Governor of California by Commodore Stockton; General Kearny, United States Army, revoked this order and placed him under arrest for mutiny; tried by court martial in Washington, found guilty, and pardoned by President Polk, but resigned; crossed the continent in 1848; located in California on the Mariposa grant; commissioner to run the boundary line between United States and Mexico in 1849; upon the admission of California as a State into the Union was elected as a Free-Soil Democrat to the United States Senate and served from September 9, 1850, to March 3, 1851; crossed the continent in 1853 for the fifth time; unsuccessful as the first Republican candidate for President of the United States in 1856; appointed major general in the United States Army by President Lincoln May 14, 1861, and placed in command of the western military district; was removed December 2, 1861; appointed to command the mountain department February 10, 1862; resigned June 4, 1864; again nominated for President by the Cleveland convention in 1864; Governor of Arizona Territory 1878-1881; appointed a major general in the United States Army on the retired list April 28, 1890; died in New York City July 13, 1890; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery; reinterment in Rockland Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y., March 17, 1891.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Frémont, John Charles," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1183 Original Sources, accessed January 17, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S4NJ9CA78T4Z26.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Frémont, John Charles." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1183, Original Sources. 17 Jan. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S4NJ9CA78T4Z26.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Frémont, John Charles' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1183. Original Sources, retrieved 17 January 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S4NJ9CA78T4Z26.
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