Elihu B. Washburne
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Elihu Benjamin Washburne was an American politician. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Illinois before, during and after the American Civil War.
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Washburne, a political ally, welcomed president-elect Abraham Lincoln upon his 1861 arrival in Washington D.C.
In 1861 Washburne began his sponsorship of Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War.
President Grant in 1869
1880 Republican Convention. James A. Garfield (center, right) won the presidential nomination.
Washburne's son Hempstead; elected Mayor of Chicago in 1891In their orbit 4
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Elihu Benjamin Washburne was an American politician. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Illinois before, during and after the American Civil War. He was a political ally of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. During Grant's administration, Washburne was the 25th United States Secretary of State briefly in 1869, and was the United States Minister to France from 1869 to 1877.
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