he came south and signed a tready with Andres Pico on January 13, 1847 that ended the war in that region. Fremont was appointed military governor of California on January 16, 1847 by Commodore Stockton. General Stephen Watts Kearny had orders from President Polk to assume the governorship, but Fremont refused to resign and was arrested August 22, 1847. He made various attempts to salvage his reputation including a failed privately funded expedition in 1848 to survey a route for a 38th parallel transcontinental railroad. He served only a few months as Senator for California, failed in this Presidential campaign as candidate for the Republican Party in 1856. He was appointed a major general in the Civil War and commander of the Army’s Department of the West in 1861. Fremont ordered Gen. Nathaniel Lyon to bring Missouri into the Union. General Lyon managed to push
he came south and signed a tready with Andres Pico on January 13, 1847 that ended the war in that region. Fremont was appointed military governor of California on January 16, 1847 by Commodore Stockton. General Stephen Watts Kearny had orders from President Polk to assume the governorship, but Fremont refused to resign and was arrested August 22, 1847. He made various attempts to salvage his reputation including a failed privately funded expedition in 1848 to survey a route for a 38th parallel transcontinental railroad. He served only a few months as Senator for California, failed in this Presidential campaign as candidate for the Republican Party in 1856. He was appointed a major general in the Civil War and commander of the Army’s Department of the West in 1861. Fremont ordered Gen. Nathaniel Lyon to bring Missouri into the Union. General Lyon managed to push