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 ".

In Secretary Seward's bedroom was his daughter, Fanny Seward.

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.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

" Similarly, English poet Anna Seward had a devoted friendship to Honora Sneyd, who was the subject of many of Seward's sonnets and poems.

The exterior of the Camelot Castle Hotel was used to portray Dr. Seward's asylum in the 1979 film, Dracula starring Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence.

Although Wyatt was executed, Freeman, whose conviction was reversed on Seward's successful appeal to the New York Supreme Court, died in his cell of tuberculosis.

More recent scholarship suggests that Taylor was not under Seward's influence and would have accepted the Compromise if he had not died.

The purchase was variously mocked by the public as Seward's Folly, " Seward's Icebox ," and Andrew Johnson's " polar bear garden.

Seward and his family owned a home in Auburn, New York which is now a museum ; it was built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller.

Seward's birthplace in Florida, New York was bought by the village in 2010, with the purpose of refurbishing it.

The property actually contains two houses: one in back — Seward's actual birthplace — which was converted into a barn ; and one in front, built in the 1890s, used by the family that lived there for many years.

Seward's Success was once proposed to be constructed here in the 1970s.

Another colourful treatment was Brian Seward's Aesop ’ s Fabulous Fables ( 2009 ) in Singapore, which mixes a typical musical with Chinese dramatic techniques.

U. S. Naval warships were ordered to the Orient, however, when Seward's term ended in 1869, he was unable to organize a naval expedition.

However, it was here that Seward's talent was recognised and her work published in the annual volume of poems from the gatherings, a debt that Seward acknowledged in her Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller ( 1782 ).

Public opinion in the United States was generally positive, though some criticized the purchase as " Seward's Folly " or " Seward's Icebox ".

Meanwhile, the United States was so focused on issues of Reconstruction, that few Americans picked up on Seward's grand dream to expand Manifest Destiny to the Pacific.

In 1860 he was chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention where he placed Senator William H. Seward's name in nomination for President.

The huge territory, with 20, 000 miles of coastline, was initially called by many skeptics " Seward's Folly ".

" Alaska celebrates the purchase on Seward's Day, the last Monday of March.

* Seward's Success, Alaska, a dome-enclosed community proposed in 1968

Alaska celebrates the purchase each year on the last Monday of March, which is known as Seward's Day.

It should not be confused with Seward's Day, the last Monday in March which marks the signing of the treaty for the Alaska Purchase in which the U. S. purchased Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867.

In 1867, he negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia in a transaction contemporaries derisively called " Seward's Folly.

Seward, who is best remembered for purchasing Alaska (" Seward's Folly ") from Russia, was the first New Yorker to have a monument erected in his honor.

Seward's Day is a legal holiday in the U. S. state of Alaska.

*" The Genesis of Double Stars "-by George Darwin, from A. C. Seward's Darwin and Modern Science ( 1909 ).

Meigs rushed to Rodgers House, Seward's home on Lafayette Square just across the street from the White House.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

He had no idea where Seward's room would be.

Reversing it, he smashed the butt down on Frederick Seward's head, over and over again.

Critics sneered at " Seward's Folly " and " Seward's Icebox " and " Icebergia.

The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

When Sneyd married despite Seward's protest, Seward's poems became angry.

* Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in March.

Seward's proclamation noted that Ohio and New Jersey lawmakers had reversed themselves and purported to rescind.

Further, Seward's proclamation questioned the validity of those reversals.

Seward's wife Frances Adeline Seward.

Seward's support for Andrew Johnson extended to behind the scenes scheming for the President's acquittal during his 1868 Impeachment trial.

Historian David O. Stewart sums up Seward's involvement this way: