Henry Dodge (12 October 1782 – 19 June 1867) was Governor of the Wisconsin Territory from 30 April 1836 to 13 September 1841 (preceding James Duane Doty) and from 8 April 1845 to 23 June 1848 (succeeding Nathaniel P. Tallmadge and preceding John Catlin) and a US Senator from Wisconsin (D) from 8 June 1848 to 3 March 1857 (preceding James Rood Doolittle).
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Henry Dodge was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1782, and he was raised in Kentucky. At age 14, he moved to Missouri to live with his father, who had abandoned the rest of the family, and he took part in Aaron Burr's failed conspiracy to conquer the Southwest from Spain. In 1813, he became a US Marshal and Sheriff of Ste. Genevieve County, and he became a Major-General of the Missouri militia during the War of 1812. In 1827, he fought in the Winnebago War, and he rose to prominence during the Black Hawk War of 1832. From 1836 to 1841 and from 1845 to 1848, he served as Governor of the Wisconsin Territory, and he sided with Martin Van Buren in opposing the annexation of the Republic of Texas in 1845. From 1848 to 1857, he served as one of his state's inaugural US Senators, and he died in Burlington, Iowa in 1867.