You share your special day with.... 1839 – William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (died 1920) 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger ...

William H. Seward called Alaska the “last star added to the American flag.” Today, it must become the first place America looks to solve the biggest challenges of our time: economic ...

William L. Iggiagruk Hensley The Conversation On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a ...

It was at Florida, in that county, that William Henry Seward was born on May 16, 1801. He was frail as a boy and his parents chose him as the son to be favored with a liberal education.

The United States borders the Arctic via Alaska, which was acquired from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million—a deal mocked at the time as “ Seward’s Folly,” named after US Secretary of State William H.

The negotiations were primarily conducted by Russian minister to the US, Eduard de Stoeckl, and US Secretary of State William H Seward. The US government took over the administration of Alaska, and it ...

In 1865, then American President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State William H Seward presented a proposal to the Danish government to buy Greenland and Iceland, after purchasing Alaska from the ...

In 1867, after buying Alaska from Russia, US Secretary of State William H Seward led negotiations to buy Greenland from Denmark, but failed to reach any agreement.

Purchasing Greenland has been advocated by American secretaries of state such as James F. Byrnes, William H. Seward, and other top government officials privately for years and now publicly by Trump.

That’s the same Seward best remembered for his savvy purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million, also known as “Seward’s Folly.” ...