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	WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
		His son, FREDERICK WILLIAM SEWARD, was born in Auburn, New York, on the 8th of July 1830, graduated at Union College in 1849 and was admitted to the bar at Rochester, N.Y., in 1851.
		Sewards wife, an invalid, received such a shock that she died within two months, and his only daughter, who witnessed the assault, never recovered from the effects of the scene and died within the year.
		Seward himself, apparently sharing these views, although not out of vanity, at first possessed an unbounded confidence in his ability to influence the president and his cabinet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEWARD_WILLIAM_HENRY.htm (2752 words)

	William H. Seward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(1839-1920), Frederick William Seward (1835-1915) and Augustus Henry Seward (1826-1876).
		Seward served as a state senator of New York from 1831 to 1834, and as Governor of New York from 1839 to 1843.
		Seward survived an assassination attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same night Abraham Lincoln was shot) from Lewis Powell (alias: Lewis Payne), an associate of John Wilkes Booth, who broke into Seward's bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_H._Seward (842 words)

	William Seward Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
		He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the writer.
		Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Seward_Burroughs (102 words)

	Seward House -- Biography
		William Henry Seward was born in 1801 in Florida, Orange County, New York.
		Seward returned to Auburn at the close of his second term and, in 1846, used the then-novel insanity defense to defend William Freeman, a mentally-ill African-American who had murdered a white farmer and his family.
		At the age of 29, William Seward was elected as an Anti-Mason to the New York State Senate.
	www.sewardhouse.org /biography (773 words)

	William H. Seward
		Seward graduated from Union College in 1820, read law, was admitted to the bar and established a practice in Auburn, his home for the remainder of his life.
		Seward was stabbed in the throat during the Lincoln assassination plot, but recovered and continued to serve as secretary of state under Andrew Johnson.
		Seward began his political rise as an opponent of the prevailing Jacksonian views of the day—first as a supporter of John Quincy Adams, then an active anti-Mason and later as a Whig.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h168.html (549 words)

	War between the States - William Henry Seward
		Seward was the front-runner for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination but failed to attain it; many Republicans feared that his record of support for antislavery and Catholic rights did not have a broad enough appeal.
		An expansionist, Seward purchased (1867) Alaska for the United States and favored the acquisition of the Danish West Indies (the Virgin Islands) and Hawaii.
		Lincoln came to trust Seward's advice on domestic questions, most notably in delaying the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation until after the Union victory at Antietam in 1862.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/civilwar/cw8.htm (415 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: William H. Seward (1801-1872)
		Seward remarked that, old as he was, he had learned a lesson from this affair, and that was, he had better attend to his own business and confine his labors to his own Department.
		Seward and his son Frederick came to my rooms at Willard's with a telegram from Captain Meigs at New York, stating in effect that the movements were retarded and embarrassed by conflicting order from the Secretary of the Navy.
		Seward's suggestion, they had arranged for supplies and reinforcements to be sent out at the same time we were fitting out vessels for Sumter, but with no intention whatever of interfering with the latter expedition.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=93&subjectID=2 (1945 words)

	William Seward: Biography of William Seward
		WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, American statesman, was born at Florida, New York, May 16th, 1803, of Welsh and Irish descent.
		Seward accepted the important post of Secretary of State under President Lincoln, and guided the diplomacy of the Federal government through the perils of the War of Secession, with almost unparalleled energy and success.
		Seward, which were at first believed to be fatal, but from which he slowly recovered.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/S/WilliamSeward.html (395 words)

	William H. Seward Papers
		Seward was elected to the New York state legislature in 1830.
		In the course of the next decade Seward was transformed from a mild antislavery advocate to an active defender of fugitive slaves.
		This correspondence was written during Seward's second term as governor and on his return to private law practice.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/S/Seward.html (136 words)

	William H. Seward
		Seward entered elective politics by serving in the state senate from 1830 to 1834, wherein he established himself as a leader of the Whig party.
		Seward was wounded by a would-be assassin on the same night that Lincoln was murdered.
		In 1860, Seward was the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
	www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/WilliamHSeward.htm (375 words)

	Sign Information
		Defeated for governor by William L. Macy in 1834, Seward was elected to that position in 1838 as a leader of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party, and served as governor for two terms, from 1839 to 1843.
		Seward was admitted to the bar at Utica in 1822, and partnered in Auburn, New York, with Elijah Miller.
		William Seward was born in Florida, New York, on May 16, 1801.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12752 (711 words)

	William Henry Seward
		William Henry Seward, Jr., was the youngest son of the Secretary of State.
		Seward fought in several campagns and on September 13, 1864, became one of the youngest general officers of the army.
		Seward's most memorable achievement after the war was the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for a mere $7.2 million.
	www.library.miami.edu /archives/shedd/seward.htm (334 words)

	Civil War Prelude: Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict"
		William Seward, at this stage in his political career, established his image as a radical abolitionist, becoming anathema to Southerners, as he expressed his anti-slavery Higher Law principle.
		Southerners claimed the support of the supreme law of the land to spread slavery wherever they desired, while northerners like William Seward argued that the Democrats were distorting the Constitution and undermining the founding principles of the Union.
		Whether or not Seward believed that Civil War was inevitable or imminent, he did recognize the moral danger in accommodating slavery and the increasing tension between the two primary subcultures in the United States, polarized on this issue and aggravated by expanding population and railroad transportation.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/sewardcss.html (4874 words)

	William H. Seward by Giovanni Benzoni
		But Seward’s belief that the struggle between the slave and free states was “an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces” had made him some implacable enemies.
		Combining the virtues of politician and statesman, Seward was highly successful in preventing the intervention of European powers in American affairs during the Civil War years.
		In the end, Seward supported Lincoln actively and became his secretary of state.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /leaders_seward.html (93 words)

	William Henry Seward
		William H. Seward served as the Secretary of State for both President Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.
		Seward’s first major test as Secretary of State was the Trent affair, when a Union naval vessel stopped, boarded, and removed two Confederate officials from the neutral ship.
		In 1830, Seward was elected to the New York State Senate, serving until 1834 when he ran, unsuccessfully, for the governorship of New York.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=63 (303 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the first workable adding machine, was born in rural New York in 1855.
		The Burroughs family's legacy lived on not only through William Seward Burroughs, his adding machine fortune and the Unisys Corporation, but also through his late grandson, William S.
		William Joseph E. Boyer, a St. Louis manufacturer who had supported Burroughs' efforts for many years, became president of the American Arithmometer Company in 1902.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/burroughs.html (421 words)

	SEWARD, William Henry (1801-1872) Bibliography
		“William Henry Seward and Slavery: 1801-1861.” Master’s thesis, University of Rochester, 1957.
		“William Henry Seward: A Study in Nineteenth Century Politics and Nationalism, 1855-1861.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1965.
		“William Seward and the Politics of Progress.” In Politics and Statesmanship: Essays on the American Whig Party, pp.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S000261 (515 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - William Seward
		Seward, William Henry (1801-72), American statesman, born in Florida, New York, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, New York.
		Haywood, William Dudley (1869-1928), American labor leader, born William Dudley Haywood in Salt Lake City, Utah.
		In 1857 Kansas, then a territory, was about to be admitted to the Union as a new state.
	encarta.msn.com /William_Seward.html (116 words)

	Badsey: William Seward 1702-1740
		William Seward (1702-1740) was the fourth of seven sons of John and Mary Seward, who moved to Badsey in the late 17
		William Seward was closely involved with the early Methodist movement.
		Terry Sparrow, in his book, A Brief History of Badsey and Aldington, has the following to say about William Seward:
	www.badsey.net /past/seward.htm (394 words)

	William Henry SEWARD
		William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York in 1801.
		Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic movement after 1828.
		Seward was seriously wounded in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, and after 1865 his health was not good.
	home.cfl.rr.com /jkhazelton/PS02/PS02_064.HTML (458 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: William H. Seward's House
		Seward entered fully into his feelings, but observed, with characteristic caution, that the issue between Sherman and Johnston had not yet been decided, and a premature celebration might have the effect to nerve the remaining army of the Confederacy to greater desperation.
		Seward's home was the frequent target of evening walks by the President in search of congenial company if not the less congenial smell of William H. Seward's ever-present cigars.
		Seward had bought the brick townhouse in 1861 and most of his family came to live there in May - with the exception of his wife, Frances, who stayed in Auburn, New York, with their daughter Fanny.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=205&subjectID=2 (1447 words)

	William Henry Seward
		William Henry Seward: Senator - Senator Seward was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1849.
		William Henry Seward: Early Career - Early Career A graduate (1820) of Union College, he was admitted to the bar in 1822 and established...
		William Henry Seward: Secretary of State - Secretary of State In 1861, Seward became Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, and many...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0844596.html (243 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -ALASKA PURCHASE
		He and Secretary of State William H. Seward worked out a treaty under which the United States would purchase Alaska for $7.2 million in gold.
		Seward mounted a vigorous campaign, however, and with support from Charles Sumner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won approval of the treaty on April 9 by a vote of 37-2.
		Many Radical Republicans scoffed at "Seward's folly," although their criticism appears to have been based less on the merits of the purchase than on their hostility to President Johnson and to Seward as Johnson's political ally.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_002000_alaskapurcha.htm (403 words)

	DOUGLASS : William Seward - "The Irrepressible Conflict," 25 October 1858
		William Seward- "The Irrepressible Conflict," 25 October 1858
		DOUGLASS : William Seward - "The Irrepressible Conflict," 25 October 1858
		Where the text can be found: The Works of William H. Seward, edited by George Baker (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884), vol.
	douglassarchives.org /sewa_b20.htm (4083 words)

	Today in History: March 30
		The town of Seward, Alaska, located on the Kenai Peninsula at the head of Resurrection Bay, was founded in 1903 as a supply base for the construction of a railway to the Yukon Valley.
		Seward, secretary of state under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, supported American expansion and was eager to acquire Alaska.
		Critics attacked Seward for the secrecy surrounding the deal with Russia, which came to be known as "Seward's folly." They mocked his willingness to spend so much on "Seward's icebox" and Andrew Johnson's "polar bear garden."
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar30.html (472 words)

	Huguenot Historical Society Library William Henry Seward Letters (1840-1842)
		Four letters written from William Henry Seward to Dr. Sydney A. Doane, M.D. in New York City while Seward was governor of New York State.
		William Henry Seward (1801-1872) is mainly known for his position as Secretary of State under
		Seward strongly opposed slavery, and worked particularly hard to fight its expansion into the new territories.
	hhs-newpaltz.org /library_archives/collections/finding_aids/seward_william_h.html (261 words)

	William S. Burroughs
		William Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, the grandson of the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine.
		In 1947 he began to live with Joan Vollmer, another member of the group around the Columbia campus, and they had a son William S. Burroughs, Jr.
		In the post-Bomb society, all the mainstays of the social order have lost their meaning, and bankrupt nation-states are run by 'control addicts.'" Burroughs' essay "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness." describing an experimental cure for herion addiction developed by a London doctor, was published in the Evergreen Review in 1960.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/burroughs.htm (665 words)

	Arctic: Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward's Alaskan purchase and Bret Harte's "An Arctic Vision"
		Seward's design was to get all west of the Mississippi." Seward's vision was more far-reaching than the parochial concerns of the Pacific Coast newspapers, keen to boost their local economies and subscribe to the rhetoric of manifest destiny.
		Throughout, Seward remained undaunted and The Bulletin (24 April 1867) was soon to report that "the Washington correspondent of the Boston Post is accurately informed of negotiations...between the State Department and the [British] Colonial Secretary, for the purchase of a large portion of British America.
		Seward did not overstate the case when he called "Alaska--in the near future the great fishery, forest, and mineral storehouse of the world!" (Seward, 1873:35-36).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3712/is_199712/ai_n8775336 (7476 words)

	William H. Seward
		During the famous session of Congress that resulted in the Compromise of 1850, Seward stood firmly against the Compromise and in favor of the unconditional admission of California as a free state.
		During the 1850s, as the slavery issue intensified, Seward initially tried to keep the Whig party alive, but by the end of 1855, he joined the newly organized Republican party.
		An election defeat in 1842 returned Seward to private law practice for seven years before he reentered politics with his election to the United States Senate.
	www.tulane.edu /%7Elatner/Seward.html (500 words)

	William S Burroughs: The Biography Project
		William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914, in St.
		On 21 July 1947, William Burroughs III is born.
		RE/Search 4/5: William S Burroughs, Bryon Gysin & Throbbing Gristle (V. Vale & A. Juno, eds.), 1982
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/william_s_burroughs.html (1518 words)

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