Elihu B. Washburne

September 23, 1816 – October 22, 1887

Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887) was an American politician who served as the 25th U.S. secretary of state briefly in 1869 and as U.S. minister to France from 1869 to 1877. A Republican ally of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, he represented Illinois in Congress before, during, and after the Civil War.

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