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William Henry Seward (/ ˈ s uː ər d /; [1] May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and an assistant for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat.
The order provoked apprehension in Lincoln's cabinet. [95] The United Kingdom and France were searching for cause to recognize and support the Confederates, and Stanton's order may have given it to them. [96] Secretary of State Seward thought the order would "complicate the foreign situation." Stanton persisted, and his January 29 order stood. [97]
Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...
William Seward served as Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869.. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1861 to 1897 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster.The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865.
A well-known letter commonly attributed to President Abraham Lincoln was likely written by his secretary John Hay, finds new research.
Nicolay and Hay were friends from an early age. In 1860 they were selected as personal secretary and assistant secretary, respectively, to President Abraham Lincoln of the United States, and served throughout his presidency. Each of them became notable in his own right as both went on to other offices, Hay later serving as U.S. Secretary of ...