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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (May 31, 1824 – December 27, 1902) was an American writer and political activist. She was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the wife of military officer, explorer, and politician John C. Frémont.
May 27, 2024 · Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (born May 31, 1824, near Lexington, Va., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1902, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American writer whose literary career arose largely from her writings in connection with her husband’s career and adventures and from the eventful life she led with him.
Jan 12, 2020 · Jessie Benton Frémont was a predecessor of the modern political spouse. More than a century and a half ago, she walked into the center of a bitter presidential campaign—cheered by...
Jessie’s greatest political intervention occurred during Frémont’s second expedition in 1843 when she detained an order from Frémont’s commander in the U.S. Army’s Bureau of Topographical Engineers recalling him to Washington.
Jessie Benton Frémont was a unique 19th-century woman because she had a powerful influence on public events. Her role in John Charles Frémont’s emancipation proclamation, as well as her other public endeavors, made her a hero of the emerging women’s movement at the end of her life.
Jessie Benton Frémont moved to a house on Black Point on the eve of the Civil War. As the daughter of a prominent anti-slavery senator from Missouri, Jessie was raised in the thick of political life in Washington, D.C.
May 9, 2018 · Essence and symbol of the defining moments of 19th-century expansionism, John and Jessie Frémont were the quintessential American power couple. Benton, the man who unwittingly bound John and Jessie together, had been courting Frémont to realize his own vision of the nation’s bounded expansion.
