Wade Hall Collection of American Political Materials

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Wade Hall Collection of American Political Materials

1841-1992

http://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/resources/4844

The Wade Hall Collection of American Political Materials contains correspondence, photographs, travel logs, phone directories, newspaper clippings, brochures, and other items related to former United States presidents, vice presidents, and other political figures. The collection includes a letter from Cornelia Dyer Heile, who discusses Abraham Lincoln's assassination and her childhood memories of the Lincolns. The collection also includes travel logs of former presidents Harry Truman and Dwight E. Eisenhower; a watercolor painting by Eisenhower; correspondence from Sybil Pool, former Alabama Secretary of State; and items related to the US temperance movement.

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University of Alabama

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University of Alabama

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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, on May 16, 1801. He was the son of Samuel S. Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, Judge Miller's daughter, in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic m...