Allan Nevins
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Joseph Allan Nevins Jr. was an American historian and journalist. Nevins was known for his extensive work on the history of the American Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Clevela
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John C. Frémont
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Major-General John Charles Frémont was a United States Army officer, explorer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the
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…extensive private research in the New York Public Library and published The Emergence of Modern America, 1865–1878 in 1927, and a biography of explorer John Charles Frémont, Frémont: The West's Greatest Adventurer in 1928. During a leave of absence from his newspaper job, Nevins spent a term teaching American history at…
Joel R. Poinsett, a wealthy South Carolinian, was Frémont's patron.
Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. Senator, Missouri, was Frémont's powerful backer in the Senate.
Jessie Benton Frémont in 1876
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