He smiled, but now that he knew where the elder Seward was, he did not intend to go.

Informal discussions did take place with Secretary of State William Seward through Supreme Court Justice John A. Campbell, an Alabamian who had not yet resigned ; Seward hinted that Fort Sumter would be evacuated, but nothing definite was said.

The adoption by Seward Collins of its philosophy, or some trappings, in his publication The Bookman did something to tarnish it, in a way that external critics had up till then failed to.

Lincoln did not submit a counter argument, indicating afterwards to Seward that he had found he was unable to draft a convincing rebuttal to Seward ’ s position.

She did correspond with Sarah Trimmer, and she wrote a series of poems in praise of women writers: Trimmer, Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Turner Smith, and Anna Seward.

In February 1861, Harris was elected a U. S. Senator from New York to succeed William H. Seward who did not seek re-election, but would be appointed U. S. Secretary of State by Abraham Lincoln.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

William Hunter was appointed acting Secretary of State for the wounded Seward.

In 1866, Seward and Weed sought out Democratic allies of the President and other conservatives in an effort to establish a stronger base for the President to oppose the Radical Republicans.

Secretary of State Seward negotiated the treaty for the purchase of Alaska from Russia on April 9, 1867 for $ 7. 2 million.

Seward Peninsula dialects in Western Alaska, where much of the Inupiat culture has only been in place for perhaps less than 500 years, are greatly affected by phonological influence from the Yupik languages.

The Eskimo languages of Alaska are called Inupiatun, but the variants of the Seward Peninsula are distinguished from the other Alaskan variants by calling them Qawiaraq, or for some dialects, Bering Straits Inupiatun.

Douglas remained the main advocate for the bill while Chase, William Seward of New York and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts led the opposition.

* 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $ 7. 2 million, about 2 cent / acre ($ 4. 19 / km² ), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

A computer algorithm was invented for radix sort in 1954 at MIT by Harold H. Seward.

William Henry Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, was famous for his enjoyment of whist, often entertaining guests with the game.

* March 30 – Alaska is purchased for $ 7. 2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent / acre ($ 4. 19 / km² ), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

In early 1859, abolitionist U. S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US $ 1, 200.

Callow, rich Ensign Willis Seward " Willie " Keith ( Robert Francis ) reports for duty aboard the Caine, his first assignment.

In 1834, Seward was nominated as the Whig candidate for Governor of New York, but he lost the election to the incumbent Democrat William L. Marcy.

From 1836 to 1838, Seward served as agent for a group of investors who had purchased the over western New York holdings of the Holland Land Company.

) Seward recalled his preference as a child for the company and conversation of the slaves in his father ’ s kitchen to the ' severe decorum ' in his family's front parlor.

" This belief would stay with Seward through his life and permeate his career, though as Secretary of State under President Johnson he endorsed Johnson's " side-stepping of the demands of more progressive Republicans, who had sought to guarantee far more favorable treatment for freed slaves.

Seward, having long been an advocate of prison reform and better treatment for the insane, sought to prevent both men from being executed by using a relatively new defense of insanity.

In 1859, confident of gaining the presidential nomination and advised by his political ally and friend Thurlow Weed that he would be better off avoiding political gatherings where his words might be misinterpreted by one faction or another, Seward left the country for an eight-month tour of Europe that included a visit to Syria, where Ayub Beg Tarabulsy gave him several Arabian horses.

" Having argued for taking American possession of vulnerable but useful places such as the Danish West Indies, Samaná, Panama, and Hawaii, Seward oversaw the annexation of only one, that of the Brook Islands in 1867.

Another member of the conspiracy, David Herold, led Powell to the Seward home on horseback and was responsible for holding Powell's horse while he committed the attack as well as guiding him out of the city during their escape.

Powell was able to gain access to the Seward home by telling the butler that he was delivering medicine for Seward.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate ; Senator William H. Seward sought, but failed to receive the Republican nomination.

Seward supported the Whig candidate, General Zachary Taylor, in the presidential election of 1848.

Observing events from Europe, Karl Marx, who was ideologically sympathetic to Frémont, contemptuously regarded Seward as a " Republican Richelieu " and the " Demosthenes of the Republican Party " who had sabotaged Frémont's presidential ambitions.

Clarence Seward Darrow ( April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938 ) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert " Bobby " Franks ( 1924 ) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes " Monkey " Trial ( 1925 ), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan ( statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate ).

Many, perhaps a majority, had been Whigs, such as William Seward, a leading presidential contender in 1860 and Lincoln's Secretary of State, Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, and Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, the leading radical newspaper.

Initially, William H. Seward of New York, Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, and Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, were the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination.

Set during the American Civil War, the novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures, including presidential secretary John Hay, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, his daughter Kate Chase, U. S. Representative Elihu B. Washburne, and conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold.

He was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison ( 1840 ), Henry Clay ( 1844 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1848 ), Winfield Scott ( 1852 ), John Charles Frémont ( 1856 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( 1860 ).

King's Sentinel supported William H. Seward for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, but rallied around Abraham Lincoln when he emerged as the nominee.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

When Lincoln won the nomination, Seward loyally supported him and made a long speaking tour of the West in the autumn of 1860.

In 1860 he supported the ex-Whig Edward Bates of Missouri for the Republican nomination for president, an action that weakened Greeley's old ally Seward.

Conservatives at the Republican 1860 nominating convention in Chicago were able to block the nomination of William Seward, who had an earlier reputation as a radical ( but by 1860 had been criticized by Horace Greeley as being too moderate ).

However, Weed's reputation as a strong-arm political boss and his staunch opposition to Democrats in his earlier years caused the Republican delegates in Chicago — some of whom were former Democrats — to distrust him ; Weed's support may have ultimately cost Seward the nomination.

A member of the Whig party's Northern radical anti-slavery wing, his nomination over Greeley on the Whig ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1854 led to the dissolution of the political firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley.