Historical Figure
Ninian Edwards
Ninian Edwards served as the first and only Governor of Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818, and later as one of the first U.S. Senators from the state of Illinois. During the War of 1812, he led military campaigns against British-allied tribes in the upper Mississippi region. As territorial governor, Edwards was a principal treaty commissioner responsible for negotiating numerous treaties with Indigenous nations in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi region, including the Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ottawa, and other nations. His treaty negotiations were instrumental in opening vast tracts of land in present-day Illinois and Wisconsin to American settlement.
Portrait: Portrait of Gov. Ninian Edwards, Illinois State Capitol, Springfield.
17 treaties
17 mapped locations
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Treaties (17)
Treaty with the Foxes, 1815
09/14
Treaty with the Iowa, 1815
09/16
Treaty with the Kickapoo, 1815
09/02
Treaty with the Makah, 1815
07/20
Treaty with the Osage, 1815
09/12
Treaty with the Osage, 1825
06/02
Treaty with the Ottawa, etc., 1816
08/24
Treaty with the Piankashaw, 1815
07/18
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1815
07/18
Treaty with the Sauk, 1815
09/13
Treaty with the Sauk, 1816
05/13
Treaty with the Sioux Of St. Peter’s River, 1815
07/19
Treaty with The Sioux of the Lakes, 1815
07/19
Treaty with the Sioux, 1816
06/01
Treaty with the Teton, 1815
07/19
Treaty with the Winnebago, 1816
06/03
Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1815
07/19
