Grant later boasted, with some justice, that Hamilton Fish was the best secretary of state in fifty years. While historians have tended to mock Grant's cabinet as a bunch of mediocrities-and Borie certainly qualified as such-it was actually weighted with former congressmen, senators, governors, and judges. It had figures of real distinction {Fish}, Radical Republicans {Boutwell, Creswell}, men of exceptional intellect {Hoar},
( Ron Chernow )
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