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HORATIO SEYMOUR (1810-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEYMOUR (1810-1886)  , See also:American statesman, See also:Ohio, See also:South-Western (which has repair shops here), the See also:Pittsburg, was See also:born at See also:Pompey, See also:Onondaga See also:county, New See also:York, on the 31st See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the See also:Southern See also:Indiana of May 181o . His ancestor, See also:Richard See also:Seymour, a See also:Protestant See also:railways, and by the See also:Indianapolis, See also:Columbus & Southern and Episcopal 'clergyman, was an See also:early settler at See also:Hartford, Connecti- the Indianapolis & See also:Louisville interurban electric lines . The See also:city cut, and his See also:father, See also:Henry Seymour, who removed from Connecti- has a considerable See also:trade in produce, and has various manufactures, cut to New York, was prominent in the Democratic party in including woollen-goods, See also:furniture, carriages and automobiles. the See also:state, being a member of the " See also:Albany Regency " and Seymour was settled in 1854, incorporated as a See also:town in 1864, serving as state senator in 1816-1819 and in 1822, and as See also:canal and chartered as a city in 1867 . See also:commissioner in 1819-1831 . The son was brought up in See also:Utica, SEYMOUR OF SUDELEY, See also:THOMAS SEYMOUR, See also:BARON studied in 1824-1825 at See also:Geneva See also:Academy (afterwards See also:Hobart (c . 1508-1549), See also:lord high See also:admiral of See also:England, was See also:fourth son of See also:College), and then at a military school in See also:Middletown, See also:Conn., See also:Sir See also:John Seymour of See also:Wolf See also:Hall, See also:Wiltshire, and younger See also:brother and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1832 . He was military secretary of the See also:Protector See also:Edward Seymour, 1st See also:duke of See also:Somerset . His to See also:Governor W . L . See also:Marcy in 1833-1839, was a member of See also:sister Jane Seymour became the third wife of Henry VIII. in the New York See also:Assembly in 1842, in 1844 and in 1845, being 1536, and another sister, See also:Elizabeth, married Thomas See also:Cromwell's See also:speaker in 1845; See also:mayor of Utica in 1843, and in 1852 was son . Seymour's connexions thus ensured his promotion, and he elected governor of the state over See also:Washington Hunt_(1811-1867), quickly won the favour of the See also:king, who gave him many grants of the Whig See also:candidate, who had defeated him in 185o . He vetoed See also:land and employed him in the royal See also:household and on See also:diplomatic in 18J4 a See also:bill prohibiting the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors (which See also:missions abroad .

From 1540 to 1542 he was at See also:

Vienna, and in was declared unconstitutional almost immediately after its re- 1543 in the See also:Netherlands, where he served with distinction in the enactment in 1855), and in consequence he was defeated in 1854 See also:war against See also:France, holding for a See also:short See also:time the supreme See also:corn-for re-See also:election as governor by See also:Myron Holley See also:Clark (1806-1892), mand of the See also:English See also:army . In 1544 he was rewarded with the the Whig and See also:temperance candidate . Seymour was a See also:con- See also:post of See also:master of the See also:ordnance for See also:life, becoming admiral of the servative on See also:national issues and supported the administrations See also:fleet a few months later, in which capacity he was charged with of See also:Pierce and See also:Buchanan; he advocated See also:compromise to avoid guarding the Channel against See also:French invasion . Henry VIII. See also:secession in 186o-1861; but when war See also:broke out he supported See also:left Seymour a See also:legacy by his will, and is said to have directed the See also:maintenance of the See also:Union . In 1863-1865 he was again that he should be raised to the See also:peerage . In See also:February 1547 he governor of New York state . His opposition to See also:President was accordingly created Baron Seymour of Sudeley and appointed See also:Lincoln's policy was mainly in respect to emancipation, military lord high admiral . From this time forward he was mainly arrests and See also:conscription . The president tried to win him over occupied in intrigue against his brother the Protector, of whose early in 1863, but Seymour disapproved of the See also:arrest of C . S . See also:Power he was jealous; and he aimed at procuring for himself the See also:Vallandigham in May, and, although he responded immediately to position of See also:guardian of the See also:young king, Edward VI . Several the See also:call for See also:militia in See also:June, he thought the Conscription See also:Act un- matrimonial projects entered into Seymour's schemes for necessary and unconstitutional and urged the president to gratifying his ambitions .

No sooner was Henry VIII. dead than postpone the draft until its legality could be tested . During the lord high admiral tried to secure the princess (afterwards the draft riots in See also:

July he proclaimed the city and county of See also:queen) Elizabeth in See also:marriage; and when this project was New York in a state of insurrection, but in a speech to the frustrated he secretly married the See also:late king's widow, See also:Catherine rioters adopted a See also:tone of conciliation—a See also:political See also:error which See also:Parr, whose See also:hand he had vainly sought as early as 1543 . He also injured his career .. He was defeated as Democratic candidate took steps to ingratiate himself with Edward, and proposed a for governor in 1864 . In 1868 he was nominated presidential marriage between the king and the See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey . He entered candidate by the National Democratic See also:Convention, See also:Francis into relations with pirates on the western coasts, whom it was his P . See also:Blair, Jr., being nominated for the See also:vice-See also:presidency; but See also:duty as lord high admiral to suppress, with a view to securing Seymour and Blair carried only eight states (including New York, their support; and when the Protector invaded See also:Scotland in the New See also:Jersey and See also:Oregon), and received only 8o electoral votes summer of 1547 Seymour fomented opposition to his authority to 214 for See also:Grant and See also:Colfax . Seymour did not re-enter political in his See also:absence . On the See also:death of his wife in See also:September of the life, refusing to be considered for the See also:United States senatorship next See also:year he made renewed attempts to marry the princess from New York in 1876 . He died on the 12th of February Elizabeth . Somerset strove ineffectually to See also:save his brother from 1886 in Utica, at the See also:home of his sister, who was the wife of ruin, and in See also:January 1549 Seymour was arrested and sent to the See also:Roscoe See also:Conkling . See also:Tower; he was convicted of See also:treason, and executed on the loth The Public See also:Record of Horatio Seymour (New York, 1868) includes of See also:March 1549 .

his speeches and See also:

official papers between 1856 and 1868 .

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