As a Whig, he would later replace James Polk's future secretary of war, William Marcy, as the governor of New York and opposed Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850.
One political cartoon depicted this man as a spider with Winfield Scott caught in his web. As a senator, this man proposed the Guano Island Act, which allowed the United States to claim islands with guano deposits and in his most famous post, this man signed a treaty with Richard Lyons, which ended the Atlantic Slave Trade. In his early career, this man served as a state senator as member of the anti-Masonic party and developed a symbiotic relationship with (*) Thurlow Weed. As a Whig, he would later replace James Polk's future secretary of war, William Marcy, as the governor of New York and opposed Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850. This man, who would be succeeded by Elihu Washburne, also negotiated the resolution to the Trent Affair and made a deal with Eduoard Stoeckl that is known as his "folly." For ten points, name this Secretary of State for Lincoln and Johnson, who purchased Alaska from Russia.
One political cartoon depicted this man as a spider with Winfield Scott caught in his web.
William Henry Seward