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William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 – March 18, 1891) was an American lawyer and politician who was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln.He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois.
He was a major in the Black Hawk War in 1832, where he first met Abraham Lincoln, who was in the same battalion as Stuart. He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives between 1832 and 1836. Stuart encouraged Lincoln to study law and the two subsequently became law partners, between 1837 and 1841.
This was at the same time as the collapse of a legislative program he had supported for years, the permanent departure of his best friend, Joshua Speed, from Springfield, Illinois, and the proposal by John Stuart, Lincoln's law partner, to end their law practice. [24] Lincoln is believed to have suffered something approaching clinical depression.
Stephen Trigg Logan (February 24, 1800 – July 17, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician.. He practiced law with Abraham Lincoln from 1841 to 1843. [1] He served as Illinois circuit court judge and in 1847 was elected to the Illinois Constitutional Convention.
Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən ... In fact, Lincoln's law partner William H. Herndon would grow irritated when Lincoln brought his children to the law ...
Special Occasion Studios and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Thursday a partnership with the new feature documentary film, “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln.”
Isham Lincoln & Beale was the second-oldest legal firm in Chicago after Sidley Austin. Several of its attorneys left for Sonnenschein Carlin Nath & Rosenthal after Isham disestablished. It was thought to be the second-largest dissolution of a law firm after Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey. [2]
In the new documentary “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” director Shaun Peterson tackles decades’ worth of speculation about the sexual orientation of the towering 16th ...