Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton - #7-41
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N 40° 21.582 W 080° 36.826
17T E 532795 N 4467753
This marker is on the front lawn of the Jefferson County Court House.
Waymark Code: WMM95J
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 08/14/2014
Views: 4
Each side of the marker read the same and goes as follows:
Born in Steubenville in 1814, Edwin McMasters Stanton studied at Kenyon College and opened his law practice in Cadiz in 1836. The grandson of North Carolina slaveholders, Stanton opposed slavery. A successful railroad attorney and War Democrat at the beginning of the Civil War, he accepted the challenge of reorganizing President Abraham Lincoln's War Department. Stanton enforced unpopular draft laws, fought draft, restricted the press, and nationalized the railroads. An effective planner and logistician, Stanton moved 20,000 soldiers more than 1,200 miles in a week by railroad to relieve the siege of Chattanooga in 1863. Following Lincoln's assassination, Stanton clashed with President Andrew Johnson and provoked the act that led to Johnson's impeachment. He died four days after President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1869.
Marker Number: 7-41
County: Jefferson
Significance of Location: Person
Bicentenial Mark: yes
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
Website address: Not listed
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