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Mary Lincoln, c. 1860–65 An 1867 lithograph of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their sons, Robert and Thomas lithograph by Currier and Ives shows Abraham Lincoln with Mary Lincoln and their sons, Robert and Thomas ("Tad") During her White House years, Mary Lincoln faced many personal difficulties generated by political divisions within the nation.
The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. Since becoming a state in 1818, 43 people have served as governor of Illinois; before statehood, it had only one territorial governor, Ninian Edwards. The longest-serving governor was James R. Thompson, who was elected to four terms lasting 14 years, from 1977 to 1991.
Pritzker was born in Palo Alto, California, on January 19, 1965.He is the son of Donald Pritzker and Sue Pritzker (née Sandel). [7] [4] A member of the Pritzker family, a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent [8] prominent in business and philanthropy during the late 20th century, [9] [10] Pritzker is named after both of his paternal uncles, Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker, and called "JB" for ...
The governor of Illinois is the head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state.
Richard James Oglesby (July 25, 1824 – April 24, 1899) was an American soldier and Republican politician from Illinois, who served three non-consecutive terms as Governor of Illinois (from 1865 to 1869, for ten days in 1873, and from 1885 to 1889) and as a United States Senator from Illinois (from 1873 to 1879), and earlier was a member of the Illinois Senate, elected in 1860.
Governor of Illinois 1949–1953 (Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, Volume 3) (1973), primary documents. Peck, J. M. A Gazetteer of Illinois (1837), a primary source online; Quaife, Milo Milton ed. Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861: From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush (1944) Sutton, Robert P. ed.
The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th president, thanks to a ...
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.