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ವಿಲಿಯಂ ಹೆನ್ರಿ ಸೀವರ್ಡ್

Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and advocate of a vigorous expansionism. He is perhaps best known for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7. 2 million, an act labeled "Seward's Folly. "

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