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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 Administration during most of the American Civil War.
Edwin McMasters Stanton (Steubenville, 19 dicembre 1814 – Washington, 24 dicembre 1869) è stato un politico statunitense
Avvocato democratico e antischiavista, ministro della Guerra dal 1862 durante le presidenze di Lincoln e Johnson, entrò in conflitto con quest'ultimo sostenendo, nell'ambito della politica di ricostruzione nazionale successiva alla guerra di secessione, l'atteggiamento più duro nei riguardi degli stati del Sud voluto dal Congresso, atteggiamento...
- Edwin M. Stanton: Early Life and Political Career
- Edwin M. Stanton: Lincoln’s Secretary of War
- Edwin M. Stanton: Post-Civil War Career and Later Life
Edwin McMasters Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on December 19, 1814. After his father died in 1827, Stanton worked in a bookstore to help support his widowed mother. He attended Kenyon College in 1831 but left the following year due to his family’s worsening financial situation. In 1835 Stanton passed the Ohio state bar and began practicin...
Stanton had been an early critic of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, but he remained in Washington after the start of the Civil Warand served as an adviser to Secretary of War Simon Cameron. In November 1861 Stanton counseled Cameron to issue a report arguing that slaves should be armed to fight against the Confederacy. Coupled with allegations of cor...
After the end of the Civil War, Stanton remained secretary of war under President Andrew Johnson and oversaw the demobilization of the U.S. Army. During Reconstruction, he clashed with Johnson over his lenient treatment of the former Confederate states. Stanton openly criticized Johnson for failing to provide more federal intervention in the affair...
9 apr 2024 · Edwin M. Stanton was the secretary of war who, under Pres. Abraham Lincoln, tirelessly presided over the giant Union military establishment during most of the American Civil War (1861–65). Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1836, Stanton became a highly successful attorney.
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12 gen 2024 · Edwin McMasters Stanton was United States Secretary of War from 1862 to 1868, serving under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.
10 ago 2017 · STANTON. Lincoln’s War Secretary. By Walter Stahr. Illustrated. 743 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. During his second tour of America, in 1867, Charles Dickens dined in Washington with the secretary...
