Seward, William H.

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1. A political leader of the nineteenth century. Seward was secretary of state under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He is best known for arranging the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for seven million dollars.

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Alaska was long called “Seward's Folly” and “Seward's Icebox” by people who thought that the place would show little return on the American investment in it.

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Seward, William H., 67, 68, 83, 92, 93, 119, 120, 123, 300.

From A History of the Republican Party by Platt, George Washington

Seward, William H., Secretary of State: suggests closing passage of Lincoln's First Inaugural, xxii-xxiii; portrait in "Lincoln and Cabinet," 206.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Seward, William H., and Douglas, 251; loses Republican nomination, 425;on committee of thirteen, 453;and the Blairs, 461, 462.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

Seward, William H., advises Taylor as to policy in 1850, 312.

From Daniel Webster by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Seward, William H., secretary of state, stigmatized by Count Gurowski, 222.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward