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President -elect Abraham Lincoln had chosen William Henry Seward to be the US secretary of state. Seward believed the South could be convinced to rejoin the Union and sought out General in Chief Winfield Scott as a political ally who also wanted to avoid a war.

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Q: What future member of President Lincoln's cabinet believed the Southern states could be convinced to return to the Union?
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