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The Life and Career of Edwin McMasters Stanton


Edwin M. Stanton | Union War Secretary, Lincoln's Cabinet Member

Edwin M. Stanton was the secretary of war who, under Pres. Abraham Lincoln, tirelessly presided over the giant Union military establishment during most of ...

Edwin M. Stanton ‑ Civil War, Secretary, Reconstruction | HISTORY

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) was a lawyer and politician who served as Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war during the Civil War (1861-65).

Edwin Stanton - Wikipedia

Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln ...

Edwin M Stanton (U.S. National Park Service)

Edwin M. Stanton was born in 1814 in Steubenville, Ohio, the oldest of four children. He attended Kenyon College and went on to become a lawyer.

Attorney General: Edwin McMasters Stanton - Department of Justice

He was Counsel for the State of Pennsylvania from 1849-1856. He moved to Washington to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Edwin M. Stanton (1860–1861) - Miller Center

Stanton served as prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, Ohio, from 1837 to 1839 and as a reporter of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1842 to 1845.

Edwin McMasters Stanton - Friends of the Lincoln Collection

Upon his father's death, young Stanton had to take work at a bookstore to support his mother. He became a lawyer in 1836 and married Mary A. Lamson, with whom ...

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. | Library of Congress

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-69) was secretary of war from 1862 to 1868 ... his life and donated by him to the national library. The collection covers a ...

The Life and Career of Edwin McMasters Stanton

Price, Mary Louise, "The Life and Career of Edwin McMasters Stanton" (1968). Plan B Papers. 569. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/plan_b/569. This Dissertation/Thesis ...

Cabinet and Vice Presidents: Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869)

Stanton succeeded Simon Cameron to whom he had given legal advice (some of which helped get Cameron fired). Stanton was a sharp and abusive critic at the ...

Edwin M. Stanton - The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

He developed a very successful legal career in Ohio, then Pittsburgh, and finally Washington, D. C.. While in Ohio, Stanton became active in the local ...

Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) - Mr. Lincoln and Friends

“Mr. Stanton was a loyal and upright man, devoted to the cause of the Union; and afterwards, as Secretary of War under President Lincoln, he achieved fame ...

Edwin McMasters Stanton - Supreme Court of Ohio

In 1837 Stanton was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, and during the following year he promoted Tappan's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The Real Edwin Stanton: The True Story Of Lincoln's Secretary Of War

In short, in his role as secretary of war and close adviser to Lincoln, Stanton did the dark and dirty work that may have ensured that the Union ...

Edwin M. Stanton - Steubenville Visitor Center

Edwin McMasters Stanton was the Secretary of War in the Lincoln Administration during the American Civil War.

Edwin McMasters Stanton | Ohio Civil War

Due to Stanton's impressive legal work, in 1858, Jeremiah Black, the Attorney General of the United States, appointed Stanton as a special land claims agent in ...

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814–1869) - civiced.org

Stanton's role as secretary of war included responsibility for the safety of President Lincoln. When the president was assassinated, Stanton followed every lead ...

Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary - NPR

If you've heard of Edwin Stanton, it's probably because of what he did after Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Even as the Civil War ...

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) - The Latin Library

Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 - December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician and Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War ...

Edwin M. Stanton, Politician born - African American Registry

The first of David and Lucy Stanton's four children, Edwin McMasters, was born to them in Steubenville, Ohio. Edwin's early formal education consisted of a ...