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4 days ago · Summary. Best known as Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state during the Civil War, William Henry Seward conducted full careers as a statesman, politician, and visionary of America’s future, both before and after that traumatic conflict. His greatest legacy, however, lay in his service as the secretary of state, leading the diplomatic effort ...
1 day ago · Booth had assigned Lewis Powell to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward. On the night of the assassination, Seward was at his home on Lafayette Square , confined to bed and recovering from injuries sustained on April 5 from being thrown from his carriage.
3 days ago · Chester A. Arthur, William Lloyd Garrison, and General Winfield Scott Hancock were amongst the celebrities who attended the 1876 dedication of the William Henry Seward statue in Madison Square...
19 hours ago · Six months after he was released from Auburn Prison, Freeman was accused of murdering four members of the Van Nest family in Cayuga County. This case has now. Steve Delickson July 6, 2024.
19 hours ago · William H. Seward from New York was considered the front-runner, followed by Salmon P. Chase from Ohio, and Missouri's Edward Bates. Abraham Lincoln from Illinois, was lesser-known, and was not considered to have a good chance against Seward. Seward had been governor and senator of New York and was an able politician with a Whig background.
5 days ago · Whigs did not reject entirely the long-term possibility of future territorial expansion if it came about through “masterly inactivity,” in the words of Senator William Seward (1801–1872) of New York, and if it reflected the organic development of the conditions of freedom that would make voluntary accessions to the Union ...
1 day ago · On the one hand, General Scott, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and others urged him to abandon the fort; and Seward, through a go-between, gave a group of Confederate commissioners to understand that the fort would in fact be abandoned.
