Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . 4, 1*61, toApril 15, 1865. Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Secretaryof Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, William P. Fessenden, Hugh Me-Culloch. Secretaries of War, Simon Cameron, Fdwin M. of Navy, Gideon Welles. Secretaries of Interior, Caleb , John P. Usher. Postmasters-General, Montgomery Blair,William Dennison. Attorneys-General, Edward Bates, James II. Seward, Lincolns secretary of state, was born in F
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . 4, 1*61, toApril 15, 1865. Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Secretaryof Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, William P. Fessenden, Hugh Me-Culloch. Secretaries of War, Simon Cameron, Fdwin M. of Navy, Gideon Welles. Secretaries of Interior, Caleb , John P. Usher. Postmasters-General, Montgomery Blair,William Dennison. Attorneys-General, Edward Bates, James II. Seward, Lincolns secretary of state, was born in Flori-da, New York, ou May 16, 1801, a sou of Dr. Samuel S. and Mary(Jennings) Seward. He was graduated from the Union college in 1820,taught school while studying law, began practice at Auburn, New York,in 1*23, and soon acquired reputation as an able criminal lawyer. In1824 he married Frances Adeline, daughter of Judge Elijah Miller. In1828 he was president of a State convention of young nun favoring there-election of John Quiuey Adams, and iu the following year he publishedhis first work, a life of Adams. His complete works, including eorres-. HON. E. M. STANTON. 484 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIELS, STATESMEN. pondence and speeches, were published in four volumes, 1853-62, In1830-4 he was State senator; elected governor of New York in 1838, andagain in 1840; United States senator, 1849—61; secretary of state throughthe administrations of Lincoln and Johnson. Mr. Sewards national famein politics began in 1832, with his speech in favor of the United Statesbank, and as a leader of the Whig party he exercised a marked influenceon national events. Pie supported Clay in 1844, and Taylor in 1848;opposed the annexation of Texas, and firmly resisted the extension ofslavery. For his speeches against the compromise of 1850, the Missouricompromise and slavery in Kausas, he became a man marked out for thehatred of the pro-slavery party and he richly earned their of the first to rec
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