Lawyer
Centurion, 1870–1891
Born 7 October 1828 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 24 July 1897 in Geneva, New York
Buried Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York
Proposed by William E. Curtis and William Bond
Elected 7 May 1870 at age forty-one
Archivist’s Note: Son of (nonmember) William Henry Seward, U.S. secretary of state from 1861 to 1869, among other political offices
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