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He didn't sale anything to the US, he made a purchase, which at the time was called 'Sewards Folly'. Seward was a Presidential hopeful before the US Civil War, and became Lincoln's secretary of state, for the duration of the war. He as well as Linclon, the Vice President, Andrew Johnson (who succeeded Lincoln, and was later impeached), were also targets of John Wilkes Boothe's & C.'s assassination plot in which Lincoln was shot at Ford's theatre 14 April 1865. Seward served as secretary of state for Johnson, and in 1867 purchased the entire geographic region, which was to become the 49th state of the union, Alaska, from Russia for $7.2 million ($119 million in 2014 $'s)

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