(January 21, 1813-July 13, 1890)
Birth name is John Charles Fremon
Governor of the California Territory (1847-1850)
Senator from California (1850-1851)
Republican presidential candidate (1856)
Union major general during the Civil War
Governor of the Arizona Territory (1878-1881)

He was arrested for insubordination to his superiors (1847).
He wrote an autobiography.
He ran for the U.S. presidency against James Buchanan, but got only 33% of the vote (1856).
He conflicted with Abraham Lincoln on several issues, leading to his removal as commander of western Union forces (1861).
He resigned from his job as a Union general after losing several battles.

He was opposed to slavery.
He discovered several plants, such as the Single-leaf Pinyon.
He helped map the Des Moines River and Sierra Nevada region in the 1840s.
He was one of the founders of the Republican Party.

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