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Born May 16, 1801 in Florida, New York

Graduated  from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1820

24th Secretary of State in 1861

Seward carefully managed international affairs during the Civil War

Seward was the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860

He bought Alaska for $7.2 million dollars (“Biographies of the Secretaries”)

Died October 10, 1872 (“ William Henry”)

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(Kenneth)

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Purchased in 1867

$7.2 million dollars to purchase

Became a state on January 3, 1959 (“Purchase of Alaska”)

Known as “Seward’s Icebox” or “Seward’s Folly” because it cost so much and people thought of it as a huge mistake (“Alaska Purchase”)

Buying Alaska was proven to be good because they found gold in the 1880’s and the 1890’s

It was called, “Alaska’s richest mineral resource”

Alaska became the gateway to the Klondike gold fields (“Purchase of Alaska”)

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(“The U.S National”)

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(“Alaska Map 1895”)

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