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What was the Team of Rivals? |
| 2023-04-25 |
| [BRITANNICA] Abraham Lincoln’s chief competitors for the nomination as the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in 1860 were front-runner William H. Seward, a U.S. senator from New York; Salmon P. Chase, the governor of Ohio; and Edward Bates, a prominent state legislator from Missouri. Lincoln, whose sole experience in national government had been as a one-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, confounded contemporary pundits by appointing all three of these political powerhouses to his cabinet: Seward as secretary of state, Chase as secretary of the treasury, and Bates as attorney general. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals chronicles their historic collaboration. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #3 I read and highly recommend Goodwin's book. It's very good. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2023-04-25 11:35 |
| #2 #1 Do they mention the possibility that Seward was involved in the assasination? Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-04-25 08:32 Thing, Seward was badly wounded the night of the assassination by co-conspirator Lewis Paine. If he was involved that was an odd way to show it. ;) Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-04-25 09:54 |
| #1 Do they mention the possibility that Seward was involved in the assasination? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-04-25 08:32 |