John Charles Frémont

John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) was an American explorer, born at Savannah, Georgia, in the United States. At first, he was a teacher of mathematics in the navy, subsequently took to civil-engineering and surveying. In 1843, he explored the South Pass of the Rockies, and proved the practicability of an overland route. He explored the Great Salt Lake, the watershed between the Mississippi and Pacific, and the upper reaches of the Rio Grande. He rendered valuable services in the Mexican War, but was deprived of his captaincy for disobedience. After unsuccessfully standing for the Presidency in the anti-slavery interest, he again served in the army as major-general. A scheme for a southern railway to the Pacific brought him into trouble with the French government in 1873, when he was tried and condemned for fraud, unjustly it would seem. From 1878 to 1882 he was governor of Arizona. He was the recipient of distinctions from various geographical societies.

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