This man was the father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, and he favored the admission of California and New Mexico as free states, which placed him in opposition to what would become the Compromise of 1850

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1. This man was the father-in-law of Jefferson Davis, and he favored the admission of California and New Mexico as free states, which placed him in opposition to what would become the Compromise of 1850