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Peter H. Watson (? -1855)
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Abraham Lincoln's White House
Peter H. Watson (? -1855)
Lawyer in partnership with Edwin M. Stanton who in 1862 joined the War Department as an assistant secretary shortly after Stanton was named secretary of war. Watson’s presence in the War Department diminished the…
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