That man managed to diffuse an incident in which a US warship was captured on its way to supply Cuban rebels, the Virginius affair.
During the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt frequently referred to "Martin, Barton, and" a congressman with this name to mock Republican isolationism. A more famous man with this name dispatched the USS Alaska and James Milton Turner to negotiate an end to the Liberian-Grebo war. A killer with this name, nicknamed "Albert," was known as the "Boogey Man" for his serial cannibalism of children like Grace Budd. This name was held by a cabinet official who organized a plan to annex the (*) Dominican Republic that was torpedoed by Charles Sumner. That man managed to diffuse an incident in which a US warship was captured on its way to supply Cuban rebels, the Virginius affair. A man with this name negotiated the Treaty of Washington, which gave the US a 15 million dollar payment from Great Britain for building warships for the Confederacy. For 10 points, give the name of the politician who resolved the Alabama claims, the Secretary of State under Ulysses Grant.
During the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt frequently referred to "Martin, Barton, and" a congressman with this name to mock Republican isolationism.
Hamilton Fish [or Hamilton Fish III; or Hamilton Howard Albert Fish]