Augustus C. Dodge

Augustus Caesar Dodge ( January 2, 1812 in Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, † November 20, 1883 in Burlington, Iowa ) was an American politician (Democratic Party). He was one of the first two U.S. senators from Iowa after the founding of the state in 1846.

The home taught and thus grew up without proper education Augustus Dodge moved with his father Henry Dodge in 1827 to Illinois, where the family settled in Galena. He was employed there in the lead mines of his father. As a soldier he fought among others in the Black Hawk War.

1837 Dodge settled down in Burlington, Iowa Territory. He worked there from 1838 to 1840 for the Land Office. As of October 28, 1840, he represented the territory as a non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. After three re-election, he remained there until December 28, 1846, when Iowa was declared a state.

On December 7, 1848 Dodge pulled as a representative of Iowa in the U.S. Senate. This was at that time already to his father, who represented the state of Wisconsin. This was the only case in the history of the Senate, that father and son belonged to the parliament chamber simultaneously. Augustus Dodge remained until 1855 in the Senate, before he resigned and was appointed ambassador to Spain adopted by U.S. President Franklin Pierce.

1859 Dodge returned back to the United States. He stood as a candidate in the October of that year as Governor of Iowa, but lost the Republican Samuel Jordan Kirkwood. From 1874 to 1875 he was finally mayor of Burlington, where he died in 1883. The Dodge County, Nebraska was named in his honor, as is the Dodge Street in Omaha.