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This article documents the political career of Abraham Lincoln from the end of his term in the United States House of Representatives in March 1849 to the beginning of his first term as President of the United States in March 1861. After serving a single term in the U. S. House, Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked as a ...
Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...
Biographers have rejected numerous rumors about Lincoln's paternity. According to historian William E. Barton, one of these rumors began circulating in 1861 "in various forms in several sections of the South" that Lincoln's biological father was Abraham Enloe, a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, who died in that same year.
Brian McGinty, Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (2015) Mark E. Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (2006) Daniel W. Stowell, ed., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases (four vols., 2007) Review; Jonathan W. White, Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life (2015 ...
United States Senate election (Illinois), 1858 – Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party candidate and ran against incumbent Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. Stephen Douglas remained Senator, but the debates between the two propelled the popularity of Lincoln and acquired for him a national reputation, which helped him to be chosen ...
Note that the total number of previous positions held by an individual may exceed four; the number of columns was limited to what would fit within the page width. The last two columns on the right list the home state (at the time of election to the presidency) and primary occupation of each future president, prior to beginning a political career.
Lincoln's role in the case helped solidify his reputation as a skilled trial attorney. [2] The legal issues around the Rock Island Bridge were not fully resolved until the United States Supreme Court ruled on a different case, Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company v. Ward, in 1863. [2]
Abraham Lincoln. Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Abraham Lincoln during his presidency. [1] In total Lincoln appointed 32 Article III federal judges, including 4 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 27 judges to the United States district courts.