Edwin McMasters Stanton

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1814-12-19

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1869-12-24

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"Edwin McMasters Stanton" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002647, (accessed November 5, 2024).

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United States Attorney General and Secretary of War. Steubenville, Ohio, native. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1855. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1855 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States under President James Buchanan from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States under President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson, from January 1862 to May 1868.

Walter Stahr, Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017). William L. Barney, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 301-302.

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