Edwin M. Stanton

(noun)

Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1865.

Related Terms

  • impeachment
  • Ulysses S. Grant

Examples of Edwin M. Stanton in the following topics:

  • The Impeachment and Trial of Johnson

    • Specifically, he had removed from office Secretary of War Edwin M.
    • Stanton (who the Tenure of Office Act was largely designed to protect), and replaced him with Ulysses S.
    • In 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in an effort to protect Edwin M.
    • Stanton refused to acknowledge the order and barricaded himself in his office.
    • While the prosecution spoke out against Johnson's violations of the Tenure of Office Act, the defense argued that Stanton's position was not actually protected by the Act, since Stanton was a leftover appointment from the 1860 cabinet.
  • The Grant Years

    • Grant won favor with the Radicals after he allowed Edwin M.
    • Stanton, a Radical, to be reinstated as secretary of war.
  • Johnson's Plan

    • Specifically, he had removed Edwin M.
    • Stanton, the secretary of war (whom the Tenure of Office Act was largely designed to protect), from office and attempted to replace him with Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

    • On July 19–20, 1848, in upstate New York, the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights was hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
    • She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.
    • Stanton remained a close friend and colleague of Anthony's for the remainder of their lives, but Stanton longed for a broader, more radical women's rights platform.
    • Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Setting Goals

    • Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-targeted (S.M.A.R.T. ) goals.
    • Edwin A.
    • Setting goals involves establishing specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-targeted (S.M.A.R.T. ) benchmarks for results.
    • Later in the mid-1960s, Edwin A.
  • Northern Blots

    • Northern blotting takes its name from its similarity to the first blotting technique, the Southern blot, named for biologist Edwin Southern.
    • Eukaryotic mRNA can then be isolated through the use of oligo (dT) cellulose chromatography to isolate only those RNAs with a poly(A) tail.
  • Lincoln's Plan and Congress's Response

    • An 1864 political cartoon—featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln, and others—takes a swing at Lincoln's administration.
  • Forming Armies

    • He later met with Edwin Stanton, secretary of war, to argue for including African Americans in combat units.
  • The Progressive Era

    • National Progressive political leaders included Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M.
    • In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and coworker in social-reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights.
    • In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote.
  • Administrative Corruption

    • Albert Fall was a member of the so-called Ohio Gang that also included Attorney General Harry M.
    • Navy Secretary Edwin Denby, among others.
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