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

A NEW generation has come upon the stage since William H. Seward, past seventy years old, a battered, exhausted, outworn statesman, died in 1872. Men are yet living who were his junior associates ...

William Seward, a U.S. senator who later became secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln, ... William H. Seward: "Shall I tell you what this collision (of free and slave labor) ...

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.

Senator William H. Seward’s enemies in Congress called him a villain and a traitor, but they rarely missed his parties. Invitations to his soirées—which took place several times a week 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 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 ...