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Clarence A. Seward

Lawyer

Centurion, 1870–1891

Full Name Clarence Armstrong Seward

Born 7 October 1828 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 24 July 1897 in Geneva, New York

Buried Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York

Proposed by William E. Curtis and William Bond

Elected 7 May 1870 at age forty-one

Archivist’s Note: Son of (nonmember) William Henry Seward, U.S. secretary of state from 1861 to 1869, among other political offices