As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as " Seward's Folly ".

Seward's most famous achievement as Secretary of State was his successful acquisition of Alaska from Russia.

Alaska was part of American Secretary of State William H. Seward's plan to incorporate the entire northwest Pacific Coast, chiefly for the long-term commercial advantages to the United States in terms of Pacific trade.

" Upon hearing of the attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the three men ran to Seward's lodgings.

Secretary of State William H. Seward's estimate was " that without the services of this eminent soldier the national cause must have been lost or deeply imperiled.

August 1863 – John Buford | General Buford ( seated ) and staff, Keogh ( left ) Through Secretary Seward's intervention, the three were given Captains ' rank and on April 15 assigned to the staff of Irish-born Brigadier General James Shields, whose forces were about to confront the Confederate army of Stonewall Jackson.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

The Secretary was uneasy about the visit.

Secretary of State Seward was a sick man.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, was a child prodigy as a pianist.

Their daughter, Catherine, married Francis Hueffer ; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.

It was also on this day that he married his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor, in Ireland.

His bride was Mary Crowninshield Endicott, daughter of the US Secretary for War, William Crowninshield Endicott.

In November, Chamberlain met 23 year-old Mary Endicott, the daughter of President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of War, William C. Endicott, at a reception in the British legation.

In 1865, Dahlgren married his second wife, Sarah Madeleine Vinton, daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and Romaine Madeleine Bureau, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first Assistant Secretary of the newly-created U. S. Department of the Interior.

In 1890, Lansing married Eleanor Foster, the younger daughter of the then serving Secretary of State John W. Foster.

He was survived by a daughter, Countess Zeech, wife of the Secretary of the Russian Legation at Munich.

On the trip, Nakasone's son was privately accompanied by the daughter of the Hu Yaobang, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

*** Lady Tunggiya ( 佟佳氏 ), from the Jurchen tribe of Jianzhou ( 建州 ), daughter of Imperial Secretary ( 尚書 ) Menggetu ( 蒙格圖 ).

She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Moon Landrieu, and the sister of the current Mayor of New Orleans and former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Mitch Landrieu.

Born at Compton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex, Cavendish was the second son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife Lady Blanche Howard, fourth daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, and the brother of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who had also been Chief Secretary.

* American politician Gary Hart ( born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936 ), who served as a United States Senator ( 1974 – 1980 ) and was a two-time candidate for President of the United States ( 1984, 1988 ), was raised as a member of the Church of the Nazarene ; married Oletha Ludwig, the daughter of the General Secretary of the denomination ; and also graduated from Southern Nazarene University ;

In 1985, she co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ) with Susan Baker, wife of then United States Secretary of the Treasury James Baker, because Tipper heard her then 11-year-old daughter playing " Darling Nikki " by Prince.

His mother was the daughter of the first Marquess of Londonderry and the half-sister of Viscount Castlereagh, who became Foreign Secretary.

Elgin's wife, Lady Mary Lambton, was a daughter of the 1st Earl of Durham, a prominent author of the Report on the Affairs of British North America ( 1839 ), and niece of the Colonial Secretary the 3rd Earl Grey.

* Virginia Hewitt ... Carol Carlisle: was the daughter of the Secretary General of the United States who works in both an administrative and scientific capacity at the United Planets ' Headquarters.

Born in Canberra, Australia, she is the daughter of Sir Lenox Hewitt ( b. 1917 ), a leading civil servant ( Secretary of the Australian Prime Minister's Department, and later chairman of Qantas ), and Lady ( Hope ) Hewitt ( 1915 – 2011 ).

In 1993, during the bitter confirmation battle over Roberta Achtenberg, a lesbian, as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pell stated that his daughter was a lesbian, and that he hoped that it would not be a barrier to federal employment for her ; Achtenberg became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate.

His wife, Margaret Rebecca Armstrong was the daughter of John Armstrong, Jr., James Madison's second Secretary of War.

In 1818 William Backhouse Astor married Margaret Rebecca Armstrong ( 1800 – 1872 ), the daughter of United States Secretary of War and Senator John Armstrong, Jr.

Ingrams married Mary Morgan on 24 November 1962 ; they had three children: a son, Fred ( b. 14 February 1964 ), who is an artist ; a second son, Arthur, who was disabled and died in childhood ; and a daughter, Margaret ( b. 4 May 1965 d. 12 May 2004 ) who was nicknamed Jubby and married in 1990, David Lionel Ford ( b. 1952 ), the younger son of Sir Edward William Spencer Ford, GCVO, KCB ERD ( b. 1910 ) Assistant Private Secretary to HM King George VI and to HM Queen Elizabeth II ( descended from the Earls of Shrewsbury ), by his wife, Virginia ( 1918-95 ), the daughter of the 1st and last Baron Brand, CMG ( 1878-1963 ), by his wife Phyllis Langhorne, dau of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, of Mirador, Greenwood, Virginia, United States.

He finds employment with the Department of Defense and becomes involved in a relationship with Audrey Raines, the daughter of Secretary of Defense James Heller.

While Mitya was alive, Dimitrov adopted Fani, a daughter of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.