Edwin Stanton | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/12/2018

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Edwin Stanton


00:01:11 1 Family and early life
00:01:20 1.1 Ancestry
00:02:20 1.2 Early life and education
00:04:36 1.3 Early career and first marriage
00:06:10 2 Rising attorney (1839—1860)
00:06:22 2.1 Return to Steubenville
00:09:45 2.2 Attorney in Pittsburgh
00:12:33 2.3 iMcCormick v. Manny/i and second marriage
00:17:05 2.4 Emergence in Washington
00:22:43 2.5 Daniel Sickles trial
00:25:09 3 Early work in politics (1860—1862)
00:25:22 3.1 In Buchanan's cabinet
00:29:24 3.2 Cameron's advisor
00:32:52 4 Lincoln's Secretary of War (1862—1865)
00:33:06 4.1 Early days in office
00:37:46 4.2 General-in-Chief
00:41:22 4.3 War rages on
00:47:21 4.4 End of the war
00:52:23 4.5 Lincoln assassinated
00:56:58 5 Johnson administration (1865—1868)
00:57:11 5.1 Sherman's truce
01:02:55 5.2 Reconstruction
01:07:36 5.3 Impeachment
01:10:38 6 Later years and death
01:10:47 6.1 Campaigning in 1868
01:12:27 6.2 Illness worsens
01:14:23 6.3 Death and funeral
01:16:32 7 Stanton on U.S. postage
01:17:09 8 Legacy
01:18:50 9 In popular culture
01:21:05 10 See also
01:21:30 11 Notes



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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 most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory. However, he was criticized by many Union generals for perceived over-cautiousness and micromanagement. He also organized the manhunt for Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
After Lincoln's assassination, Stanton remained as the Secretary of War under the new U.S. President Andrew Johnson during the first years of Reconstruction. He opposed the lenient policies of Johnson towards the former Confederate States. Johnson's attempt to dismiss Stanton ultimately led to U.S. President Johnson being impeached by the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives. Stanton returned to law after retiring as Secretary of War, and in 1869 was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant; however, he died four days after his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.