Elihu B. Washburne
| 1816-09-23 - 1887-10-22 |
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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