Edwin Stanton

19 Dec 1814 – 24 Dec 1869

Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. secretary of war under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.

• Florida contested election of United States senator
• Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a report of the survey at Hell Gate, New York
• The daily fair journal
• The Diary of a public man
• $100,000 reward!
• Appeal in the matter of James G. Wilson's application for a reissue of a patent for an improvement in sewing machines, before the Honorable James Dunlop
• Argument for the complainant in the case of the state of Pennsylvania vs. the Wheeling and Belmont bridge co., and others
• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Daily bee and union extra
• Edwin McMasters Stanton papers
• Edwin McMasters Stanton papers
• General Hunter's letter [to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War]