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aug 12, 1867 - Issues Executive Order to “suspend from office” radical Republican Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. (The Tenure of Office Act permitted suspension when Congress was not in session.) Designates General Ulysses S. Grant as Secretary of War ad interim

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