The American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, for example, rejected Yockey on the basis of his anti-American attitude, as well as his willingness to work with anti-Zionist Communist governments and movements, as the ANP adhered solely to the ideals of absolute anti-Bolshevist National Socialism, as had been advocated by Hitler.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

Abraham Lincoln was the chief Whig leader in frontier Illinois.

Most Whig party leaders thereupon quit politics ( as Lincoln did temporarily ) or changed parties.

The Whigs, both northern and southern, strongly opposed expansion into Texas, which they ( including Whig Congressman Abraham Lincoln ) saw as an unprincipled land grab.

Thus the Whig Party leader in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, simply abandoned politics after 1849.

Abraham Lincoln, its Illinois leader, for example, ceased his Whig activities and attended to his law business.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was " my ideal of a great man.

While Brownlow had supported Bell in 1860, he praised Lincoln as an " Old Clay Whig ," and argued that opposition to him had more to do with sectionalism than with slavery.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the secession debate dominated the pages of the Whig, with Brownlow relentlessly attacking the idea of secession and its supporters.

Like Lincoln, she was a Whig.

Twice a member of the Illinois legislature, he ran for the United States Congress in 1846, but was defeated by the Springfield Whig, Abraham Lincoln.

The American School's key elements were promoted by John Q. Adams and his National Republican Party, Henry Clay and the Whig Party, and Abraham Lincoln through the early Republican Party which embraced, implemented, and maintained this economic system.

Abraham Lincoln | President Lincoln an " Old Henry Clay tariff Whig " by his own definition, enacted much of the American School's core policies into law during his tenure as President 1861-1865.

As soon as Lincoln took office, the old Whig coalition finally controlled the entire government.

Although Lincoln was a former Whig, the prominent former Whig Judge Theophilus Lyle Dickey said that Lincoln was too closely tied to the abolitionists, and supported Douglas.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, " Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself.

Abraham Lincoln also rejected the compact theory saying the Constitution was a binding contract among the states and no contract can be changed unilaterally by one party.

This theory, with no other basis than Lincoln and Leigh's hypothesis, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

When Henry was Bishop of Lincoln, he had an affair with, some believe, Alice FitzAlan ( 1378 – 1415 ), the daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun, though there is no real evidence to support this and the theory has been countered by Brad Verity.

However, Sigmund Feist ( 1909 ) rejects the theory on etymological grounds, as does Albert Morley Sturtevant ( 1951 ) on the grounds of major difficulties, and their points have led Bruce Lincoln ( 1977 ) to comment that " there is no reason whatever to contend that nagl-does not have its usual meaning of " nail " and that Naglfar is anything other than the nail-ship, just as Snorri describes it.

The precursor to these Rosslyn theories is the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that introduced the theory of the Jesus bloodline in relation to the Priory of Sion hoax-the main protagonist of which was Pierre Plantard, who for a time adopted the name Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair.

In policy debate ( and less commonly in Lincoln – Douglas debates ), a kritik ( derived from German Kritik, meaning critique and traditionally pronounced as " critique ", and often abbreviated K ) is generally a type of argument that challenges a certain mindset, assumption, or discursive element that exists within the advocacy of the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory ; it is often spelled in the normal English critique or is sometimes called a criticism, and takes the adjective form kritikal ( meaning and pronounced as " critical ").

One theory about the Lincoln Assassination holds that the Dahlgren Papers ' discovery instigated the chain of events ending in John Wilkes Booth's murder of Abraham Lincoln the next year.

William Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado and an aide to President Lincoln, was a proponent of this theory.

Dr. Ray Neff, a retired health sciences professor at Indiana State University with a chemistry background, is a leading proponent of an alternative history theory about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his killer John Wilkes Booth.

After military service in the Marines, Nelson returned to Missouri to study music composition and theory at Washington and Lincoln Universities, graduating in 1958.

As Livingston affirms, the compact nature of the Union is opposed to the innovative nationalist theory of Joseph Story, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln which contends for an indivisible sovereignty, an inviolable aggregate people, and that the American Union created the States following the American War for Independence.

This theory as articulated by Lincoln has been characterized by Livingston as " Lincoln's Spectacular Lie.

On October 16, 1854, in his " Peoria Speech ", Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which he repeated en route to the presidency.

Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

He and Lincoln were elected in 1864, inaugurated in early 1865 and a month later Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's assassination.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was denied the opportunity to appoint a justice by a contraction in the size of the Court.

Just six years later, this new party captured the presidency when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.

* March 6 – While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln made a speech defending the right to strike.

The incumbent President, Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency in 1865 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was unsuccessful in his attempt to receive his Democratic presidential nomination due to his unpopularity.

In 1860 the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for president, who won the presidency and then ran for reelection in 1864.

In 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American presidency, Navarro County in protest lowered the American flag from the courthouse and instead hoisted the Texas flag.

John Addams was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party, served as an Illinois State Senator ( 1855 – 70 ), and supported his friend Abraham Lincoln in his candidacies, for senator ( 1854 ) and the presidency ( 1860 ).

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed ; see Abraham Lincoln on slavery.

Rockwell's website features a selection of articles, including positions opposing war and imperialism along with occasional articles criticizing the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Vallandigham " publicly denounced the ‘ wicked and cruel ' war by which ‘ King Lincoln ' was ‘ crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism ,'" and called for Lincoln's removal from the presidency.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

Abraham Lincoln, who shaved his beard into a goatee at various points during his presidency.

In America, Abraham Lincoln wore a goatee at various points in his presidency.

The scandal's origins date back to the Abraham Lincoln presidency with the formation of the Crédit Mobilier in 1864.

The style we presently refer to as the stovepipe was popularized in the United States by Abraham Lincoln during his presidency ; though it is postulated that he may never have called it stovepipe himself, merely a silk hat, or a plug hat.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793 and was a chief economic advisor to Abraham Lincoln during his presidency.