which political party did he represent?
Republican Party
William H. Seward
 Republican Party
who was william h. seward? He was United States Secretary of State, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. where was he born? Village of Florida
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William H. Seward [SEP] Introduction
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. Seward was born in 1801 in the village of Florida, in Orange County, New York, where his father was a farmer and owned slaves.