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Dodge, Augustus Caesar

was born Jan. 2, 1812, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.

He was a delegate to co congress from the territory of Iowa from 1841 to 1847; a presidential elector for the state of Iowa in 1848; and a senator in congress from the state of Iowa from 1848 to 1855. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864, and also to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, as well as the New York convention of 1868; and from 1838 to 1841 he held the office of register of the land office at Burlington, Iowa. He died Nov. 20, 1883, in Burlington, Iowa.