Sen. John F. Kennedy as he joined approximately 67,000,000 voters 
in casting a ballot for President of the United States in Boston, Nov.
8, 1960.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1940 election of November 5th with 55% of the popular vote and 38 of the 48 states. Henry A. Wallace ws named Vice President in
place of the conservative Texan John Nance Garner. 

On this day in 1924, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected as the nation’s first
female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B.
Ross who died of complications from an appendectomy. As the 14th Governor
of Wyoming she served from 1925 to 1927. On May 3, 1933 President Franklin
Roosevelt appointed her the first female director of the U.S. Mint, where she
served five full terms until her retirement in 1953. Ross died in December of
1977 at the age of 101.  

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States, in office from 1845 to 1849. When he took office, Polk, at 49, became
the youngest man at the time to assume the presidency.

               
                                         The Polk Presidential Dollar

(October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866)

Lewis Cass  was a military officer and politician, born in Exeter, New Hampshire,
he moved with his family to Marietta, Ohio in 1800. He served as a brigadier
general during the War of 1812 and participated in the Battle of the Thames
and as a result he was rewarded for his military service by being appointed
Governor of the Michigan Territory by President James Madison on October
29, 1813, and served until 1831.On August 1, 1831, Cass resigned as governor
of the Michigan Territory to take the post of Secretary of War under President
Andrew Jackson, a position he would hold until 1836.

During his long political career he was an American ambassador to France, a U.S. Senator, representing Michigan. In 1848, Cass was the Democratic nominee for
president, but lost to Zachary Taylor. From 1857 to 1860, Cass also served as
Secretary of State under President James Buchanan. Lewis Cass was nationally
known as a leading spokesman for the very controversial Doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty, which would have allowed voters in the territories to determine
whether to make slavery legal instead of having Congress make the decision.

A Statue of Lewis Cass stands as part The National
Statuary Hall Collection located in the U.S. Capitol.

NOTE: LEWIS CASS IS A BRANCH ON THIS BLOGGERS FAMILY TREE.