Augustus Caesar Dodge (2 January 1812 – 20 November 1883) was a US Senator from Iowa (D) from 7 December 1848 to 22 February 1855, preceding James Harlan.
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Augustus Caesar Dodge was born in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri in 1812, the son of US Senator Henry Dodge and the nephew of Lewis F. Linn. Dodge settled in Galena, Illinois in 1827, and he worked in various capacities in his father's lead mines. Dodge fought in the Black Hawk War and other Native American conflicts, and, in 1837, he settled in Burlington, Iowa. From 1840 to 1846, he served as a territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives, and he then served in the US Senate from 1848 to 1855. From 1855 to 1859, he served as an ambassador to Spain, and he died in 1883.