William L. Marcy
William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as U.S. Senator, Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State. In the latter office, he negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, the last major acquisition of land in the contiguous United States.
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[edit]- To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
- In James Parton’s Life of Andrew Jackson (1860), vol. 3, p. 378
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