Horatio Seymour
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Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He served as the eighteenth Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and again from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 186
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1860–1865
Campaign rally celebrating Seymour's election
Seymour in an undated photograph
Campaign badge, 1868, from the New York Public Library, Schomberg Collection
Reuben Fenton
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Reuben Eaton Fenton was an American merchant and politician from New York. In the mid-19th century, he served as a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and as Governor of New York.
Horatio Seymour
…control of the State Assembly. In the state elections the following year, Seymour himself was defeated for reelection in a close race by Republican Reuben Fenton. Seymour continued as a prominent figure in national Democratic politics both during and immediately after his second term as governor. In 1864, he…
Fenton, c. 1860–1865
Fenton (center) is among the conspiratorial Liberal Republicans in this Harper's Weekly cartoon of March 16, 1872.
Fenton's home in Jamestown.