Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881. After the Civil War, Frémont lost much of his wealth in the unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost more in the Panic of 1873. Frémont was nominated for president in 1864 by the Radical Democracy Party, a breakaway faction of abolitionist Republicans, but he withdrew before the election. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the army in 1864. He issued an unauthorized emancipation edict and was relieved of his command for insubordination by Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure there, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting President Lincoln or Army headquarters. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote.Īt the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination after a conflict over who was the rightful military governor of California. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. While on the third expedition, he and his men committed a number of massacres against Native Americans in California.
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In the 1840s, Frémont led five expeditions into the Western United States. Senator from California, and, in 1856, was the first Republican nominee for president of the United States and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated.Ī native of Georgia, he was an opponent of slavery. John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician.