Webinar Lecture C. Evan Stewart

C. Evan Stewart, Author, Retired Senior Law Partner, Visiting Professor at Cornell University and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School; Frequently Featured in National Media
“William Henry Seward’s Quest to Save the Nation During the Secession Winter (November 1860-April 1861)”

In the winter of 1860, one man, William Henry Seward, Senator from New York (the presumptive favorite for the 1860 Republican nomination for president, defeated by Abraham Lincoln on the third ballot,) labored mightily to effectuate his plan to save the Union. Because of history’s (and historians’) heavy bias to portray Lincoln as almost saintly, Seward’s prodigious efforts have either been ignored, given short shrift, or looked upon as something less than honorable. Based upon original archival research and a comprehensive review of secondary sources, C. Evan Stewart will tell us the story of Seward’s efforts.

C. Evan Stewart recently retired as a senior partner in an international law firm headquartered in New York City. He is a visiting professor at Cornell University and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. In addition, he is a contributing columnist for the New York Law Journal, New York Business Law Journal, and the Federal Bar Council Quarterly. He has published approximately 300 articles on a variety of legal subjects, is frequently featured in the national media and regularly speaks across the country on securities, professional responsibility, and complex litigation issues. He is the author of William Henry Seward’s Quest to Save the Nation During the Secession Winter (November 1860-April 1861); Myron Taylor: The Man Nobody Knew; The Worst Supreme Court Decisions, Ever!; and Law in American History (and in Mine).