(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.

President Kennedy signing the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the Treaty
Room at the White House.

The treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and
under water, often referred to as Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT). It was signed
by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and by the United
States. The treaty was signed by President John F. Kennedy on Monday October
7, 1963 and went into effect on October 10th.

The first page of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886)

Arthur became the 21st U.S. President (1881-1885) after the assassination of
President James A. Garfield.

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On this day in 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in
order to help starving Europeans. The audience was limited due to television still being
in its infancy with only about 44,000 TV sets in American homes, compared with some
40 million radios. As a result of his food-conservation speech, Truman pioneered the
now-familiar ritual of a White House telecast to the nation.