FTP, name this Republican leader that served as Lincoln's secretary of state, and was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
A prot??of anti-Jacksonian editor Thurlow Weed, he began his career as an antislavery Whig, serving as governor of New York. In the Senate, he opposed the Compromise of 1850 because of its tough Fugitive Slave Law, warning his opponents that the issue of slavery was governed by a "Higher Law". Joining the new Republican Party, he emerged as the front runner in 1860, only to be passed over for the more moderate Lincoln. FTP, name this Republican leader that served as Lincoln's secretary of state, and was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
A prot??of anti-Jacksonian editor Thurlow Weed, he began his career as an antislavery Whig, serving as governor of New York.
William Henry Seward