There Frémont entered the College of Charleston in 1829, where he displayed an especially marked aptitude for mathematics. When Frémont was six years old, his father, a French émigré, died, and the family moved from Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina. presidency in 1856 as the first candidate of the newly formed Republican Party. He was also a politician who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S.
Frémont, in full John Charles Frémont, (born January 21, 1813, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.-died July 13, 1890, New York, New York), American military officer and an early explorer and mapmaker of the American West, who was one of the principal figures in opening up that region to settlement and was instrumental in the U.S.
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