A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 122
... Whig nomi- nation for Congress from the one dependable Whig congressional district in Illinois . Having twice failed to obtain it , when first John J. Hardin and then Edward D. Baker ( after whom Lincoln named his second son ) became ...
... Whig nomi- nation for Congress from the one dependable Whig congressional district in Illinois . Having twice failed to obtain it , when first John J. Hardin and then Edward D. Baker ( after whom Lincoln named his second son ) became ...
Page 160
... Whig candidate to suc- ceed Lincoln in Congress , in a district ordinarily impregnably Whig , was hardly the sort of thing that commends itself to politi- cians in search of a winning candidate for anything , and Illinois Whigs were an ...
... Whig candidate to suc- ceed Lincoln in Congress , in a district ordinarily impregnably Whig , was hardly the sort of thing that commends itself to politi- cians in search of a winning candidate for anything , and Illinois Whigs were an ...
Page 217
... Whig lawyer in Shelbyville ; upon dissolution of the Whig , and forging of the Republican Party , they parted political company . One of Lincoln's more interesting cases in Shelby County was the slander action brought by Sarah Alsop ...
... Whig lawyer in Shelbyville ; upon dissolution of the Whig , and forging of the Republican Party , they parted political company . One of Lincoln's more interesting cases in Shelby County was the slander action brought by Sarah Alsop ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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