This man served two terms as the governor of New York, where he promoted progressive policies like prison reform, and better treatment for the mentally ill.
This man served two terms as the governor of New York, where he promoted progressive policies like prison reform, and better treatment for the mentally ill. As leader of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party, this man voted against the Compromise of 1850 and declared that civil war would ensure if slavery was not abolished. Although he was not able to arrange for the annexation of the Danish Virgin Islands or Panama, this man was aided in his greatest achievement by Eduard de Stoeckl, though Lewis Powell is also associated with this man. A year after he joined the Republican Party, this man lost the presidential nomination to John C Fremont. He also opposed the Fugitive Slave Act, and frequently defended runaway slaves in court, invoking the "higher law" he believed superseded the Constitution. FTP, name this purchaser of Alaska and Lincoln's Secretary of State.
This man served two terms as the governor of New York, where he promoted progressive policies like prison reform, and better treatment for the mentally ill.
William Henry {Seward}