William Howard Seward.
Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the purchase.
Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the purchase.
Seward's Icebox was Alaska when William Seward purchased it for the United States. Seward's Folly was the actual event of him purchasing it.
William Seward in 1867.
He purchased Alaska.
He was William Seward from New York. Lincoln made him Secretary of State and he continued in the office under President Andrew Johnson. Skeptics referred to Alaska as Seward's folly and Seward's icebox.
William Henry Seward engineered the purchase of Alaska.
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The Alaska purchase from Russia by the United States occurred in 1867 at the behest of Secretary of State William Seward. The territory purchased was about 600,000 square miles (1,600,000 km�) of the modern state of Alaska.
He purchased it
Lincoln had nominated William Seward as Secretary of State. The Senate confirmed the nomination and Seward became the Union's Secretary of State.