Seward ’ s frequent travel and political work suggest that it was Frances who played the more active role in Auburn abolitionist activities.

Virginia Gregg played Fanny Seward.

He also played Secretary of State William Seward in the 1988 made for TV movie, " Gore Vidal's Lincoln.

* Mel Brooks ' 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It featured a sanitarium boss named " Dr. Jack Seward " ( played by Harvey Korman ), who would recommend enemas for every conceivable ailment.

In high school, Bonanza High School, Las Vegas, NV, Seward not only played linebacker, but fullback as well.

Seward attended college in his hometown of Las Vegas for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he played four years for the Rebels and became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.

Seward was known as a versatile player while in college, as he played all three linebacker positions.

Napoleon offered “ his good office ” to the United States in resolving the conflict with the South and Dayton was directed by Seward to acknowledge that “ if any mediation were at all admissible, it would be his own that we should seek or accept .”

Despite his distrust of Seward, throughout 1861 Lyons maintained a “ calm and measured ” diplomacy that contributed to a peaceful resolution to the Trent crisis.

Painting by Emanuel Leutze, depicting William H. Seward and Eduard de Stoeckl negotiating the Alaska Purchase.

Further problems developed over possible diplomatic recognition when, in mid-August, Seward became aware that Britain was secretly negotiating with the Confederacy in order to obtain its agreement to abide by the Declaration of Paris.

With William Seward at State, Salmon P. Chase at the Treasury, and ( from 1862 ) Edwin Stanton at the War Department, Lincoln had a powerful cabinet of determined men ; except for monitoring major appointments, Lincoln gave them full rein to destroy the Confederacy.

With William Seward at State, Salmon P. Chase at the Treasury, and ( from 1862 ) Edwin Stanton at the War Department, Lincoln had a powerful cabinet of determined men ; except for monitoring major appointments, Lincoln gave them full rein to destroy the Confederacy.

In early 1862, Radical Republicans in the Senate, aided by Secretary of State William H. Seward, suggested that former president Franklin Pierce, who was greatly critical of the Lincoln administration's war policies, was an active member of the Knights of the Golden Circle.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

Most Northern Whigs, led by William Henry Seward who delivered his famous " Higher Law " speech during the controversy, opposed the Compromise as well because it would not have applied the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the new fugitive slave law, which would have pressed ordinary citizens into duty on slave-hunting patrols.

In a case involving mental illness with heavy racial overtones Seward argued, " The color of the prisoner ’ s skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath.

" Seward declined, " defending ' our policy of non-intervention — straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations ,'" and insisted that " he American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference.

Seward was portrayed by Bruce Davison in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the American Civil War.

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 County should not be confused with the city of Seward, which is located in Stafford County.

Historic places in East Longmeadow include the numerous red and brown sandstone quarries that gave the town its industrial beginnings and from which the original Smithsonian Institution building in Washington was mined, and the Elijah Burt House, The Seward Pease House and the First Congregationalist Church.

However, the residents of the southern portion of the county voted overwhelmingly against the bond issue in an 1871 election: they were displeased at having been bypassed by an earlier railroad line, anticipated no benefits from the new line, and were angry with Seward, which had won the county seat away from the southern town of Milford.

The United States Secretary of State, William Seward, threatened to treat as hostile any country which recognised the Confederacy.

It is difficult not to come to the conclusion that the rabid hatred of England which animates the exiled Irishmen who direct almost all the Northern newspapers, will so excite the masses as to make it impossible for Lincoln and Seward to grant our demands ; and we must therefore look forward to war as the probable result.

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 ).

Under Section 10, the land north and west of the PYK Line – which included the entirety of Alaska's North Slope, the Seward Peninsula, most of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the western portions of the Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands — would be part of the new state, but the President would be granted emergency powers to establish special national defense withdrawals in those areas if deemed necessary.

After conducting the tests themselves ( tests which Seward rigged ) they confirmed Seward's story.

During this time, Tate also became the de facto associate editor of The American Review, which was published and edited by Seward Collins.

The mayor of Seward sent a message, a coat of arms, and a medal ; all of which were personally delivered by a member of the entourage of the U. S .- Japan Fishing Industry Negotiation Team in Japan at the time.

The level of Lake Washington dropped ; the Black River, which formerly ran out of the south end of the lake, dried up completely, and Seward Island became the Seward Peninsula, now the site of Seward Park.

" No such misfortune ," Seward wrote, " was previously remembered in that city, nor has it recurred through all the years which since elapsed.

There is a plaque to Anna Seward ( spelled " Anne ", which is the spelling she used in her will ) in Lichfield Cathedral.

The level of Lake Washington dropped ; the Black River, which formerly ran out of the south end of the lake, dried up completely, and Seward Island became the Seward Peninsula, now the site of Seward Park.

" Though he kept some distance from the grimy details of the campaign to save Johnson by all possible means, Secretary of State Seward plainly inspired and set in motion much of the effort.

Seward ’ s instructions to Adams included the suggestion that it be made clear to Britain that a nation with widely scattered possessions, as well as a homeland that included Scotland and Ireland, should be very wary of “ set a dangerous precedent .”

The London Standard saw the capture as “ but one of a series of premeditated blows aimed at this country … to involve it in a war with the Northern States .” A letter from an American visitor written to Seward declared, “ The people are frantic with rage, and were the country polled I fear 999 men out of 1, 000 would declare for immediate war .” A member of Parliament stated that unless America set matters right the British flag should “ be torn into shreds and sent to Washington for use of the Presidential water-closets .”

Larsen passed her certification exam in 1923 and spent her first year working at the Seward Park Branch on the Lower East Side, where she had strong support from her white supervisor Alice Keats O ' Connor, as she had from Rose.

" 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.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

* 1865 – U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

In the United States in the 1930s, distributism was treated in numerous essays by Chesterton, Belloc and others in The American Review, published and edited by Seward Collins.

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.

Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

* 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.

* Richard III: England's Black Legend by Desmond Seward ( Penguin Books, 1997 ) ( ISBN 0-1 ...)

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward, proclaimed the amendment to have been ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the then 36 states.

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that the amendment had become part of the Constitution if the rescissions were ineffective, and presuming also that the later ratifications by states whose governments had been reconstituted superseded the initial rejection of the prior state legislatures.

Of the last quality evidence is furnished in the stilted style of his letters, and in the fact recorded by Seward that he never permitted his under-secretaries to sit in his presence.

* 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.

It is developed and maintained by Julian Seward.

Seward entered politics with the help of his friend Thurlow Weed, whom he had met by chance after a stagecoach accident.

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.

Seward did not seriously compete for the presidential nomination ( won by John C. Frémont ) in 1856, but sought and was expected to receive the nomination in 1860.

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.