William H. Seward

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U.S. politician William H. Seward, born this day in 1801, was an antislavery activist in the Whig and Republican parties before the American Civil War and secretary of state from 1861 to 1869. He is also remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867—referred to at that time as “Seward's Folly.”

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