Augustus Caesar Dodge beheld the population of Iowa grow from twenty-two thousand to over one and one-half millions; he was identified with the disposal of Iowa s public domain and its purchase from the Indian tribes; he was Iowa s Delegate in Congress during the transition from Territory to State; and as the medium between the Territory and Congress he was entrusted with problems of appropriations, the public domain, and boundaries.
A detailed biography of one of the first set of United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union as a state in 1846. The author, an American historian Louis Pelzer, represents to readers all the important facts and milestones of Augustus Caesar Dodge’s life and career, beginning with the ancestry and further.