- This article is about the 19th century New York Governor and Presidential candidate. For the Vermont Senator, see Horatio Seymour (Vermont). This article is about the US Senator from Vermont For the New York Governor and Democratic presidential candidate see Horatio Seymour.
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18th Governor of New York
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| In office 1853 – 1854 1863 – 1864 |
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| Lieutenant | Sanford E. Church David R. Floyd-Jones |
| Preceded by | Washington Hunt Edwin D. Morgan |
| Succeeded by | Myron H. Clark Reuben Fenton |
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| Election date November 3, 1868 |
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| Running mate | Francis Preston Blair, Jr. |
| Opponent(s) | Ulysses S. Grant (R) |
| Incumbent | Andrew Johnson (D) |
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| Born | May 31, 1810 Pompey Hill, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 1886 (aged 75) New York City, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Mary Bleecker Seymour |
| Profession | Politician, Lawyer |
Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 — February 12, 1886) was an American politician. The Governor of New York is the head of the Executive branch of New York 's government and the Commander-in-chief of the state's military Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1863 ( MDCCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The Lieutenant Governor of New York is the second highest ranking official in the government of New York. Sanford Elias Church ( April 18, 1815 Milford, Otsego County New York - May 13, 1880 Albion, Orleans County David Richard Floyd-Jones ( April 6, 1813 - January 8, 1871) was an American lawyer and Politician. Washington Hunt ( August 5, 1811 Windham, Greene County New York - February 2, 1867 New York City) was Edwin Denison Morgan (February 8 1811 February 14 1883 was Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869 Myron Holley Clark ( October 3, 1806 &ndash August 23, 1892) was an American politician from the U Reuben Eaton Fenton ( July 4, 1819 Carroll, Chautauqua County New York - 15 August 1885 Jamestown, The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place during Reconstruction. 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Year 1810 ( MDCCCX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person He was governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. The Governor of New York is the head of the Executive branch of New York 's government and the Commander-in-chief of the state's military New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous He was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1868, but lost the election to Republican Ulysses S. Grant. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place during Reconstruction. Ulysses S Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27 1822 &ndash July 23 1885 was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States
Biography
Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga County, New York, educated at Geneva College (later Hobart College) and at the American Literary, Scientific & Military Academy, studied law at Utica, and in 1832 was admitted to the bar. Pompey is a Town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. Onondaga County is a County located in the US state of New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor Norwich University (NU is a Private university located in Northfield, Vermont. He entered politics as a Democrat and served as mayor of Utica, New York from 1842 to 1843. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Utica is a City in the American state of New York, and the County seat of Oneida County. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1842, and from 1844 to 1846, being its speaker in 1845. The New York State Assembly is the Lower house of the New York Legislature, the state legislature of the U The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the Majority party.
When, in the late 1840s, the New York Democratic Party split between the two factions of Hunkers and Barnburners, Seymour was among those identified with the more conservative Hunker faction, led by Senator Daniel S. Dickinson and former Governor William L. Marcy. The Barnburners were the more radical faction of the New York state Democratic Party in the mid 19th century Daniel Stevens Dickinson ( September 11, 1800 - April 12 1866) was a New York politician most notable as a United States Senator William Learned Marcy ( December 12, 1786 - July 4, 1857) was an American statesman who served as U After this split led to disaster in the elections of 1848, when the division between the Hunkers, who supported Lewis Cass, and the Barnburners, who supported their leader, former President Martin Van Buren, Seymour became identified with Marcy's faction within the Hunkers, the so-called "Softshell Hunkers," who hoped to reunite with the Barnburners so as to be able to bring back Democratic dominance within the state. Martin Van Buren (December 5 1782 July 24 1862 was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841 In 1850, Seymour was the gubernatorial candidate of the reunited Democratic Party, but narrowly lost to the Whig candidate, Washington Hunt. Washington Hunt ( August 5, 1811 Windham, Greene County New York - February 2, 1867 New York City) was Seymour and the Softs supported the candidacy of their leader, Marcy, for the presidency in 1852, but when he was defeated, enthusiastically supported the candidacy of Franklin Pierce in 1852. Franklin Pierce (November 23 1804 &ndash October 8 1869 was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States, serving from 1853 to That year proved a good one for the Softs, as Seymour, again supported by a unified Democratic Party, narrowly defeated Hunt in a gubernatorial rematch, while Pierce, overwhelmingly elected president, appointed Marcy as his Secretary of State.
Seymour served as governor of New York from 1853 to 1854. The Governor of New York is the head of the Executive branch of New York 's government and the Commander-in-chief of the state's military His tenure saw the Democratic Party in New York once again fall into factional chaos, as the Pierce administration's use of the patronage power alienated the Hards, who determined to run their own gubernatorial candidate against Seymour in 1854. Furthermore, the administration's support of the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act with which Marcy, as Secretary of State, and thus his ally Seymour was associated, made victory seem unlikely. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands repealed the Missouri Compromise of Seymour hoped to distract attention away from both the divisions within his own party and the unpopularity of the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the issue of prohibition, of which he was a strong opponent. Seymour vetoed a prohibition bill passed by the legislature, and hoped to win re-election by attracting the support of anti-prohibition Whigs. Furthermore, the divisions of the Democrats opponents between the regular Whig candidate, Myron H. Clark, and the Know Nothing Daniel Ullman looked more dangerous to the Democrats' opponents than the candidacy of the Hard Bronson Green looked to Democratic unity. Myron Holley Clark ( October 3, 1806 &ndash August 23, 1892) was an American politician from the U In the end, however, the anti-Democratic tide was too strong, and in the four way race Clark, who received only one third of the vote, defeated Seymour by 309 votes.
In the years after his governorship, Seymour returned to private life but continued to be one of the most prominent leaders of New York's Democrats. He served as a delegate to the 1856 Democratic National Convention, and in both 1856 and 1860 supported the candidacy of Stephen Douglas for the presidency. Stephen Arnold Douglas ( April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and When the American Civil War began, Seymour took a cautious middle position within his party, supporting the war effort but criticizing the conduct of the war by Republican President Abraham Lincoln. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal Seymour was especially critical of Lincoln's wartime centralization of power and restrictions on civil liberties, as well as his support of emancipation.
In 1862, with the Republican war effort seeming mired in stalemate, Seymour returned to electoral politics and was again elected Governor, defeating Republican candidate James Wadsworth. Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday James Wadsworth ( July 8, 1730 &ndash September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham Connecticut. As Governor of the largest state in the union from 1863 to 1864, Seymour was the most prominent Democratic opponent of the President. Seymour opposed the Lincoln administration's institution of the military draft in 1863. When the draft finally was instituted, however, it led to the infamous New York Draft Riots of July 1863. The New York Draft Riots (July 11 to July 16 1863 known at the time as Draft Week) were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination Seymour's policy during the riots, when he was seen as trying to conciliate the rioters, was used against him by the Republicans, who accused him of treason and support for the Confederacy. This helped lead to his narrow defeat for re-election in 1864 by Republican Reuben Fenton. Reuben Eaton Fenton ( July 4, 1819 Carroll, Chautauqua County New York - 15 August 1885 Jamestown,
Seymour remained, nonetheless, a powerful and important senior figure within the Democratic Party. He served as permanent chairman at the 1864 Democratic National Convention. The postwar years saw Seymour, like many other northern Democrats, identifying himself with President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies, and was a strong opponent of Radical Reconstruction, with its emphasis on guaranteeing civil and political rights for freed slaves. Andrew Johnson (December 29 1808 – July 31 1875 was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-69 succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination In the History of the United States, " Reconstruction " refers to the time between 1863 and 1877 when the U
In 1868, Seymour once again served as the chairman of the Democratic National Convention. After the Convention deadlocked for 21 ballots between other characters, Seymour was unanimously chosen by the convention as a compromise candidate on the 22nd ballot. The campaign that followed saw Seymour and the Democrats advocate a policy of conservative, limited government, and opposing the Reconstruction policies of the Republicans in Congress. The Republicans, who nominated General Ulysses S. Grant, ran the first campaign at which they "waved the bloody shirt", accusing Seymour and the Democrats of treason. Ulysses S Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27 1822 &ndash July 23 1885 was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States In the United States of America's (US history, " waving the bloody shirt " refers to the demagogic practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs Seymour ran fairly close to Grant in the popular vote, but was decisively defeated in the electoral vote, 214 to 80.
After the presidential election, Seymour remained involved in politics, but largely as an elder statesman rather than an active politician. He was a mentor to the new generation of Democratic politicians in New York, particularly Samuel J. Tilden. Samuel Jones Tilden ( February 9, 1814 August 4, 1886) was the Democratic candidate for the U The state Democratic convention once again nominated Seymour for the governorship in 1876, but he turned it down. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year
Seymour died in 1886 and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York with his wife Mary Bleecker Seymour. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Forest Hill Cemetery is a Cemetery in Utica New York. Notable burials Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870 represented Massachusetts's Utica is a City in the American state of New York, and the County seat of Oneida County.
References
- Croly, David Goodman. David Goodman Croly (1829&ndash1889 was an American journalist, born in New York and educated at New York University. Seymour and Blair: Their lives and Services, (New York, 1868)
- Hartley, Horatio Seymour, (Utica, 1886)
- McCabe, James Dabney. The Life and Public Services of Horatio Seymour (1868) online edition
External links
- Mr. Lincoln and New York: Horatio Seymour
- First Edition 1862 Report on Horatio Seymour Winning New York Governor's Race.
- Speeches of Hon. Horatio Seymour : at the conventions held at Albany, January 31, 1861 and September 10, 1862
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| Preceded by Elisha Litchfield |
Speaker of the New York State Assembly 1845 |
Succeeded by William C. Crain |
| Preceded by Washington Hunt |
Governor of New York 1853 – 1854 |
Succeeded by Myron H. Clark |
| Preceded by Edwin D. Morgan |
Governor of New York 1863 – 1864 |
Succeeded by Reuben E. Fenton |
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| Preceded by George B. McClellan |
Democratic Party presidential candidate 1868 |
Succeeded by Horace Greeley |
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