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John C. Frémont
John C. Frémont was an American explorer, army officer and politician whose expeditions mapped much of the American West in the 1840s. In 1846 he encouraged the Bear Flag revolt in California and led the California Battalion in its conquest. He later served as a senator for California, was the first Republican candidate for president in 1856 and was a Union general in the Civil War.
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