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Horatio Seymour

Lieutenant(s)Sanford E. Church
David R. Floyd-Jones
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Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Bleecker Seymour
ProfessionPolitician, Lawyer
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Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 — February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He was governor of New York from 1853-1854 and from 1863-1864. 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.

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. He served as mayor of Utica, New York from 1842 to 1843. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1842, and from 1844 to 1846, being its speaker in 1845.

He served as governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and again from 1863 to 1864. During his second tenure as governor, he became a leading Northern opponent of President Abraham Lincoln's administration during the American Civil War. Seymour protested Lincoln's restriction of civil liberties, as well as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Union's military draft. He advocated the vigorous prosecution of the war, but protested against Lincoln's extensive use of executive war powers.

In 1868 he was president of the Democratic National Convention which met in New York City, and received its presidential nomination. He received 80 electoral votes against 214 for Grant.

After the presidential election, he took no further part in political affairs. He died in 1886 and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York with his wife Mary Bleecker Seymour.

References

  • Croly, David Goodman. 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

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Washington Hunt		Governor of New York
1853 – 1854		Succeeded by
Myron H. Clark
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Edwin D. Morgan		Governor of New York
1863 – 1864		Succeeded by
Reuben E. Fenton
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George B. McClellan		Democratic Party presidential candidate
1868		Succeeded by
Horace Greeley
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