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William H (William Henry) Seward

1801–1872 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. President Andrew Johnson attends commencement Andrew Johnson came to the 1867 commencement with Secretary of State William H. Seward, Postmaster General Alexander Randall and General Daniel E. Sickles, the military governor under the Reconstruction Acts, and recalled passing through Chapel Hill on foot in 1826. Johnson joined the Dialectic Society and Seward the Philanthropic, but a minority of Dialectics blocked Sickles. People: William H (William Henry) Seward, David L. Swain, Jonathan Worth Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Andrew Johnson, Alexander W. Randall, Daniel E. SicklesSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 759 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1993, p. 1

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Willie Person Mangum papers,

Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain

Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Seward, William H (William Henry), 1801-1872 -- Correspondence.

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