Chester A. Arthur, William Lloyd Garrison, and General Winfield Scott Hancock were amongst the celebrities who attended the 1876 dedication of the William Henry Seward statue in Madison Square ...

A 1936 request to replace the base of a Manhattan statue of William H. Seward—a former 19th-century governor, senator and U.S. Secretary of State—finally is being executed.

William Henry Seward was born in Orange County, New York, in May, 1S01. ... as the New York Senator. But Seward was now to reap the reward of years of eminence and conflict.

William Henry Seward, 16 May 1801 - 15 Oct 1872 Exhibition Label First as governor of New York (1839–43) and later as a U.S. senator (1849–61), William H. Seward advocated strongly for reform.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.; Frederic Bancroft's Exhaustive and Excellent Biography in Two Volumes.* Share full article. June 2, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, December 21, 1858. Share full article. Dec. 27, 1858. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

William H. Seward in 1851, while a U.S. senator from New York (Library of Congress) William H. Seward regarded the purchase of Alaska as his greatest achievement and Alaskans are prone to agree.

William H. Seward served two terms as governor of New York, was a senator representing the state and served as secretary of state under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

The statue of William H. Seward in Seattle's Volunteer Park may seem out of place to a casual observer. A senator from New York and secretary of state to Presidents Lincoln and Johnson in the ...

The Sept. 29, 1860, Quincy Whig and Republican published a letter from local prominent businessman James Woodruff stating that the U.S. senator for New York William Henry Seward and his ...

The following letter is written by the Rev. Ray Messenger, the great-great-grandson of William Henry Seward, who served as a New York State senator, New York governor and secretary of state in the ...

His son, William H. Seward, lived at the old homestead; and among the pleasures which the Secretary of State had in going home were the hours spent with his grandchildren, who were just at the age ...