Civil War general and Seneca leader Ely Samuel Parker posthumously admitted to New York State Bar

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously ...

A Native American leader who enlisted in the Union Army has been posthumously admitted to the New York bar after 176 years

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State ...