Horatio Seymour (politician, 1810)

Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Campaign poster for the Democratic nomination for President

Horatio Seymour (* 31 May 1810 in Pompey Hill , Onondaga County , New York ; † 12. February 1886 in Utica , New York) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

Life

Seymour was a member of the government of Utica from 1841 to 1850, and from 1842 to 1843 he was mayor there. At the same time, he sat from 1842 to 1845 in the New York State Assembly and was temporarily speaker of this Chamber of Parliament. From 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864 he held the office of governor of New York. His reign from 1863–1864 was marked by the civil war and a number of problems, such as B. the New York Draft Riots in July 1863. In addition, the Republicans accused him of not being loyal to the Union.

He lost the gubernatorial elections of 1864 to his Republican rival Reuben Fenton . Seymour fought against the emancipation of slaves, against conscription during the Civil War and criticized Abraham Lincoln's war policies. In 1868, Seymour won against the incumbent President Andrew Johnson and the Members of the House of Representatives , Francis Blair , the presidential nomination of the Democrats. Blair subsequently became his candidate for the vice presidency . But he lost the election in 1868 for the office of US President against Ulysses S. Grant with 47.3% to 52.7% and withdrew from political life. He died on his country estate near Utica.

literature

Stewart Mitchell: Horatio Seymour of New York. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1938, ISBN 0-306-71252-0 (English)
Seymour, Horatio . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 475 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Horatio Seymour - collection of images, videos and audio files

Horatio Seymour in the National Governors Association (English)

Horatio Seymour in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Mitchell: Horatio Seymour of New York , 1938, pp. 350-359, p. 381.

personal data
SURNAME	Seymour, Horatio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pompey Hill , Onondaga County , New York
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1886
Place of death	Utica , New York

[1] Mitchell: Horatio Seymour of New York , 1938, pp. 350-359, p. 381.