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.

Lincoln became very close to his stepmother, and referred to her as " Mother ".

Lincoln became increasingly distant from his father, in part because of his father's lack of education.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Lincoln became an able and successful lawyer with a reputation as a formidable adversary during cross-examinations and closing arguments.

The Act had no effect on illegal practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much loved Bishop Edward King of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the liturgy had to be embarked upon.

That same year, he became the first non-American to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center ’ s annual award for cinematic achievement.

In 1925 Edgerton received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he became a member of Acacia Fraternity.

Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.

He became a follower of Abraham Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

In 1496, he became a student at Lincoln ’ s Inn, one of the Inns of Court, where he remained until 1502, when he was called to the bar.

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.

Upon the UNZ's demise, Canterbury Agricultural College became a constituent college of the University of Canterbury, as Lincoln College.

Lincoln College became independent in 1990 as a full university in its own right.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

In 1301 at Lincoln, the young Edward became the first English prince to be invested with the title of Prince of Wales.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected with Lincoln in 1864 as the latter's vice president, became president.

In July 1862, President Lincoln became convinced that " a military necessity " was needed to strike at slavery in order to win the Civil War for the Union.

Huddersfield Town's Iain Dunn became the first British player to settle a match in this way-his 107th-minute goal beat Lincoln City 3-2 in the Auto Windscreens Shield on 30 November 1994.

Lancaster was renamed Lincoln after President Abraham Lincoln and became the state capital in 1867.

In 1970, Ford added an antilock braking system called " Sure-track " to the rear wheels of Lincoln Continentals as an option ; it became standard in 1971.

Front disc brakes became standard equipment in 1965 on the Rambler Marlin ( the Bendix units were optional on all American Motors " senior " platform models ), the Ford Thunderbird, and the Lincoln Continental.

Lincoln only vetoed four bills passed by Congress ; the only important one was the Wade-Davis Bill with its harsh program of Reconstruction.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

* TX-0 designed by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, important as influence for DEC products including Ben Gurley's design for the PDP-1

* LINC ( Laboratory Instrument Computer ), originally designed by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, some built by DEC. Not in the PDP family, but important as progenitor of the PDP-12.

When Lincoln finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, Tubman considered it an important step toward the goal of liberating all black men, women, and children from slavery.

The seven In Nomine settings for consort ( two a4 and five a5 ), at least one of the consort fantasias ( Neighbour F1 a6 ) and a number of important keyboard works have been assigned to the Lincoln years.

Five fortified towns became particularly important in the Danelaw: Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Stamford and Lincoln, broadly delineating the area now called the East Midlands.

Boston ( a borough by 1279 ), on the river Witham, had over many years become an important port for Lincoln.

* An important scene in D. H. Lawrence's novel, The Rainbow, takes place at Lincoln Cathedral.

It became part of the Republican Party and was important in the election of Lincoln in 1860.

Another important name is Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln explained that he had an important event to attend and had to travel to Pennsylvania.

The Union commander of all armies, Henry Wager Halleck stated to Banks that President Lincoln “ regards the opening of the Mississippi River as the first and most important of all our military and naval operations, and it is hoped that you will not lose a moment in accomplishing it .” On December 4, 1862, Banks and his expedition put to sea for New Orleans.

From 1413 to 1420, Kempe also visited important sites and religious figures in England, including Philip Repyngdon, the Bishop of Lincoln ; Henry Chichele, the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and the mystic Julian of Norwich.

In Roman times, due to the close proximity of the Fosse Way and other important Roman roads, military centres were set up at Leicester and Lincoln ; and intermediate camps were also established, for example, Six Hills on the Fosse Way.

Both Missouri and Kentucky were slave states of questionable loyalty to the Union that bordered on important Union territory ; Lincoln was born in Kentucky and losing his birth state would be seen as a political failure.

The former Rock Island Depot at Chillicothe, Illinois, now a railroad museumIn 1857, Abraham Lincoln represented the Rock Island in an important lawsuit regarding bridges over navigable rivers.

The town grew along the line of the Fosse Way, the ancient Roman road linking Exeter ( Isca Dumnoniorum ) to Lincoln ( Lindum ) on which it was an important stopping point.

It is said that Lincoln would keep important letters inside the hat.

Next winter the American Negro League was established by five former ECL teams — the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, the Baltimore Black Sox, the traveling Cuban Stars, the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, and the Lincoln Giants of New York City — along with the Homestead Grays, an important independent club, and a revived version of the Harrisburg Giants.

He held several prebendaries of which the most important was Lincoln Cathedral and was Vicar-General of the Diocese of Lincoln.

The river is associated with the early career of Abraham Lincoln and played an important role in the early white settlement of Illinois, when the area around was known as the " Sangamon River Country ".