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Hace 1 día · William Henry Seward (/ ˈ s uː ər d /; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
17 de may. de 2024 · William H. Seward was a U.S. politician, an antislavery activist in the Whig and Republican parties before the American Civil War and secretary of state from 1861 to 1869. He is also remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867—referred to at that time as “Seward’s Folly.”. Admitted to the New York.
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16 de may. de 2024 · Learn about Seward’s complex and often non-linear relationship to American Manifest Destiny, the abolition of slavery, the muddy evolution of 19th century political parties, and his role as Secretary of State during the Civil War and early Reconstruction.
Hace 2 días · Seward's son Augustus and Sergeant George F. Robinson, a soldier assigned to Seward, were alerted by Fanny's screams and received stab wounds in struggling with Powell. As Augustus went for a pistol, Powell ran downstairs toward the door,: 275 where he encountered Emerick Hansell, a State Department messenger.
21 de may. de 2024 · In 1859, William Henry Seward, New York senator and later Lincoln’s secretary of state, sold Tubman a home on the outskirts of Auburn, New York, where she settled her aged parents and other family members before joining northern abolitionists in support of Union efforts in the Civil War.
- Renee Schmidt
- 2010
31 de may. de 2024 · 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...
16 de may. de 2024 · U.S. Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, New York Governor. He received recognition as a 19th-century American politician, yet his social life may have brought him more notoriety.
