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William Henry Seward, US Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, 1862-1867. Seward (1801-1872) was a prominent opponent of slavery. He survived an assassination attempt on the same night that President Lincoln was murdered. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.