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About Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton was an American lawyer and politician who was the 27th United States secretary of war. Serving under President Abraham Lincoln during most of the American Civil War, Stanton remained as the secretary of war under President Andrew Johnson during the first years of the Reconstruction Era.
Everything about Edwin M. Stanton →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, politician, jurist
- Position held
- United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of War
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 19, 1814
- Died
- December 24, 1869