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SEYMOUR, HORATIO (1810-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEYMOUR, HORATIO (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 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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