Elihu Benjamin Washburne was an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Washburn family of Maine, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican ...

In 2000, Washburne published the first of seven volumes of a biography of his distant cousin, “A Biography of Elihu Benjamin Washburne. Congressman, Secretary of State, Envoy Extraordinary.

A bronze tablet, given in memory of Elihu Benjamin Washburne by members of his family, has been placed in the north wing of the Law School library in Langdell Hall. Washburne graduated from the ...

To correct this oversight, historian Hill offers a fresh and lively way to reconsider its importance: seeing it through the eyes of Elihu Washburne. As U.S. ambassador to France during the war ...

The park will be named for Elihu (EHL’-ih-hew) Benjamin Washburne . Washburne was a U.S. congressman and served briefly as secretary of state for another Galena resident, President Ulysses S.

2012-12-02T20:00:37-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f1b/309298-m.jpgMichael Hill talked about his book Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America’s ...