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  2. Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    [160] During this time Lincoln did not study law books, but he did spend "night after night in the Supreme Court Library, searching out precedents that applied to the cases he was working on." [160] Lincoln stated, "I love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind."

  3. Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

  4. List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln was the most photographed American of the 19th century. [1] Lincoln was photographed many times by the American Civil War photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner who were officially appointed to document the war. [2] In reference to Brady's 1860 photograph, Lincoln said, “Brady and the Cooper Institute made me President.” [3]

  5. Library of Congress Photos Put a New Face on the Great ... - AOL

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    The Library of Congress recently released over 1,600 color photos of the Great Depression. The pictures, which were taken during the final years of the Depression, offer a fresh perspective on one ...

  6. Mary Todd Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Mary Lincoln for the Ages. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-08093-3675-3. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (Ballantine Books, 2008) King, C.J. Four Marys and a Jessie: The Story of the Lincoln Women (Hildene, 2015) McDermott, Stacy Pratt (2015). Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern ...

  7. Grace Bedell - Wikipedia

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    Grace Greenwood Billings (née Bedell; November 4, 1848 – November 2, 1936) was an American woman, notable as a person whose correspondence, at the age of eleven, encouraged Republican Party nominee and future president Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Lincoln later met with Bedell during his inaugural journey in February 1861.

  8. “You Just Get So Tired”: 30 People Share What Being Poor Is Like

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    Image credits: Sea_Pop_772 Only 12% of the 3,000 respondents said they consider themselves wealthy and only 4 in 10 people who are objectively wealthy, with assets of more than $2 million, said ...

  9. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    After a bitter debate in Congress the Republic of Texas was voluntarily annexed in 1845, which Mexico had repeatedly warned meant war. In May 1846, Congress declared war on Mexico after Mexican troops massacred a U.S. Army detachment in a disputed unsettled area. However the homefront was polarized as Whigs opposed and Democrats supported the war.