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SEWARD, Olive Risley: Statue in Washington, D.C.
by John Cavanaugh
William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. As Secretary of State, he argued that the United States must move westward. He fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska, which he finally negotiated to acquire from Russia for $7,200,000 for 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km˛) of territory (more than twice the size of Texas), on March 30, 1867. This translated into approximately 2 cents per acre. The purchase of this frontier land was alternately mocked as "Seward's Folly", "Seward's Icebox", and Andrew Johnson's "polar bear garden," by the public. Currently, Alaska celebrates the purchase on Seward's Day, the last Monday of March. Source: Wikipedia
Lead by John Cavanaugh (Sculptor)
Address: Pennsylvania & North Carolina Aves SEPenn & NC Aves, C & 4th - 6th Sts SE come together here Nearest Metro: Eastern Market (Orange - Blue)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 76005433 (dcMem ID #212)
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Sources & Links:
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The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C. (A36/p85)
'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Seward (128)
Wikipedia article on Seward
