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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. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Pages in category "Lincoln administration cabinet members" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Lincoln's eventual cabinet would include all of his main rivals for the Republican nomination. He did not shy away from surrounding himself with strong-minded men, even those whose credentials for office appeared to be much more impressive than his own. [41]
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. secretary of war under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
Bates initially received support from Horace Greeley, who later switched to support Abraham Lincoln. [5] The next year, after winning the election, Lincoln appointed Bates United States Attorney General, an office Bates held from 1861 until 1864. Bates was the first Cabinet member to be appointed from a state or territory west of the ...
An 1864 cartoon mocking Lincoln's cabinet depicts Seward, William Fessenden, Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles and other members In January 1865, Francis Preston Blair , father of former Lincoln Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, went, with Lincoln's knowledge, to the Confederate capital of Richmond to propose to Davis that North and ...
Lincoln administration cabinet members (2 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Lincoln administration personnel" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
In 1860, Blair took an active part in support of Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaign. [1] After his election, Lincoln appointed Blair to his cabinet as Postmaster General in 1861. [1] Lincoln expected Blair, who advocated taking a firm stance with the southern states, to help balance more conciliatory members of his cabinet. [4]