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Civil War Portraits of Lincoln and Davis Cabinet Split
United Press International outlines Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as rivals and parallels in birth and upbringing, then details their early administrations. Lincoln selects Seward Cameron Wells Chase Smith Blair. Davis taps Toombs Walker Mallory Memminger Judah Reagan, shaping a conflict era cabinet across Union and Confederacy.
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Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Mason-Dixon Line
Lincoln
Davis
Kentucky
Thomas Lincoln
Indiana
Illinois
Samuel Davis
Jefferson
South
Louisiana
Mississippi
Southland
St. Thomas Aquinas
Washington County
Transylvania College
Lexington
West Point
U. S
William H. Seward
New York
Seward
Simon Cameron
Pennsylvania
Cameron
Russia
Gideon Welles
Connectic
Hannibal Hamlin
New England
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio
Caleb B. Smith
Edward Bates
Missouri
Montgomery Blair
Maryland
F. P. Blair
Blair
Dred Scott
F. P
Jir
Confederacy
Robert Toombs
Georgia
U.S
C.S.A
Leroy Pope Walker
Alabama
Stephen P. Mallory
Florida
Secretary of Treasury
Christopher Memminger
South Carolina
Germany
Charleston
Benja P. Judah
Yale
John H. Reagan
Texas