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William Henry Seward

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Noun1.William Henry Seward - United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)William Henry Seward - United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)


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To push home the point that her ties with Obama were on an even keel, Clinton revealed she had a portrait in her State Department office of William Henry Seward, who served as president Abraham Lincoln's wartime secretary of state.
3) Theodore Spencer to William Seward, 28 September 1838, William Henry Seward Papers, University of Rochester (hereafter Seward Papers).
Secretary of State William Henry Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska in 1867.
 
 
 
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