page_title: John C. Frémont
section_title: Other commemorations
hierarchical_section_title: John C. Frémont / Places and organizations named in commemoration / Other commemorations
caption_attribution_description: 1898 United States 5¢ stamp, Trans-Mississippi issue.
context_page_description: John Charles Frémont or Fremont was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a US Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States.
  A native of Georgia, Frémont acquired male protectors after his father's death, and became proficient in mathematics, science, and surveying. During the 1840s, he led five expeditions into the Western United States and became known as "The Pathfinder". During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination after a conflict over who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849.
  Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills.
context_section_description: The prehistoric Fremont culture, first discovered near the Fremont River
  The United States honored Frémont in 1898 with a commemorative stamp as part of the Trans-Mississippi Issue.
  The Fremont Cannon, the "largest and most expensive trophy in college football is a replica of a cannon that accompanied Captain John C. Frémont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843–44". The annual game between the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is for possession of it.
  The Pathfinder Chorus, a barbershop chorus in Fremont, Nebraska.
  The Fremont Pathfinders Artillery Battery, an American Civil War reenactment group from Fremont, Nebraska.
  The U.S. Army's (now inactive) 8th Infantry Division (Mechanized) is called the Pathfinder Division, after Frémont. The gold arrow on the 8th ID crest is called the "Arrow of General Frémont". The 8th Division was based at Camp Fremont in Menlo Park, California during World War I.
  In 2000, Frémont was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
  In 2013, the Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker at the birthplace of John C. Frémont in Savannah, Georgia.
caption: 1898 Frémont commemorative stamp
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