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GOVERNMENT > politician, abolitionist > William Seward
No man will...
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No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.
Source: Said to Stephen Douglas; in 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions, by Edmund Fuller, 1970.
-- William Seward, (May 16 1801-1872), US politician, abolitionist; He was secretary of state from 1861 to 1869; remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867--referred to at that time as Seward's Folly.