Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. First as governor of New York (1839–43) and later as a U.S. senator (1849–61), William H. Seward advocated strongly ...
The U.S. has mulled buying Greenland in the past, including an unsuccessful plan in 1867 proposed by Secretary of State William H. Seward, who is remembered for buying Alaska from Russia in the same ...