Thomas Ewing served in the US Senate as well as serving as the fourteenth secretary of the treasury and the first secretary of the interior.
16 Facts About Thomas Ewing
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Thomas Ewing is known as the foster father of famous American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Thomas Ewing was unsuccessful in seeking a second term in 1836.
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Thomas Ewing served as Secretary of the Treasury in 1841, serving under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler.
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Thomas Ewing resigned on September 11,1841, along with the entire cabinet, in protest of Tyler's veto of the Banking Act.
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Thomas Ewing was later appointed to serve as the first Secretary of the Interior by President Zachary Taylor.
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Thomas Ewing served in the position from March 8,1849 to July 22,1850 under Taylor and Millard Fillmore.
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Thomas Ewing of Ohio, selected to organize the Department of the Interior, just then authorized by law, was a man of intellectual power, a lawyer of the first rank, possessing a stainless character, great moral courage, unbending will, an incisive style, both with tongue and pen, and a breadth of reading and wealth of information never surpassed by any public man in America.
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Thomas Ewing initiated the Interior Department's culture of corruption by wholesale replacement of officials with political patronage.
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In 1861, Thomas Ewing served as one of Ohio's delegates to the peace conference held in Washington in hopes of staving off civil war.
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Thomas Ewing was a defendant of slavery at this conference, and frequently deflected attacks on the institution by Britain, stating that 'we have no slavery or misery to be compared with that existing in the India provinces.
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Thomas Ewing married Maria Wills Boyle, a Roman Catholic, and raised their children in her faith.
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Thomas Ewing was born a Presbyterian, but for many years attended Catholic services with his family.
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Thomas Ewing was formally baptized into the Catholic faith during his last illness.
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Thomas Ewing remained a Whig following his joining of the party in 1833, even when the national Whig Party collapsed and was replaced by the Republican Party.
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Thomas Ewing is buried in Saint Mary Cemetery, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio.