Although there is no indication that the two were close, Adams met Abraham Lincoln during the latter's sole term as a member of the House of Representatives, from 1847 until Adams ' death.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking.

In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.

Immediately following his departure from Louisiana, Sherman traveled to Washington, D. C., possibly in the hope of securing a position in the army, and met with Abraham Lincoln in the White House during inauguration week.

Following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of President Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender.

" On March 26, 1862 Lincoln met with Senator Charles Sumner and recommended that a special joint session of Congress be conveyed to discuss giving financial aid to any border states who initiated a gradual emancipation plan.

In April 1862, the joint session of Congress met, however, the border states were not interested and did not make any response to Lincoln or any Congressional emancipation proposal.

In August 1862, President Lincoln met with African American leaders and urged them to colonize some place in Central America.

Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward met with three southern representatives to discuss the peaceful reconstruction of the Union and the Confederacy on February 3, 1865 in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

He met Fats Waller, who was playing organ at the Lincoln Theater accompanying silent movies, and Waller taught him how to play that instrument.

" The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, " So this is the little lady who started this great war.

According to Stowe's son, when Abraham Lincoln met her in 1862 Lincoln commented, " So this is the little lady who started this great war.

The convoy left the White House in Washington, D. C. on July 7, 1919, and met the Lincoln Highway route at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.

In February, 1235 Hugh de Wells died and the canons of Lincoln cathedral met to elect his successor.

On January 10, Lincoln met with top generals ( McClellan did not attend ) and directed them to formulate a plan of attack, expressing his exasperation with General McClellan with the following remark: " If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.

It is recorded that Elijah Haines met Abraham Lincoln in 1847.

In March 1879, Wallace and McCarty met in Lincoln County to discuss the possibility of a deal.

The six decorated raiders met privately afterwards with President Lincoln in his office in the White House.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

Brian Joshua Cook ( born December 4, 1980, in Lincoln, Illinois ) is an American professional basketball player.

In his 1926 biography of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg made an allusion to the early relationship of Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as having " a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets ".

The sources included a hitherto unknown Joshua Speed diary and letters in which Speed writes explicitly about his relationship with Lincoln.

In what historian Allen Guelzo calls " one of the murkiest episodes in Lincoln ’ s life ", Lincoln called off his engagement to Mary Todd at the same time that the legislative program he had supported for years collapsed, his best friend Joshua Speed left Springfield, and John Stuart, Lincoln ’ s law partner, proposed ending their law practice.

* Mr. Lincoln and Friends: Joshua F. Speed

In 1855, Lincoln wrote to Joshua Speed, a personal friend and slave owner in Kentucky:

Joshua Fry Speed ( November 14, 1814 – May 29, 1882 ) was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln from his days in Springfield, Illinois, where Speed was a partner in a general store.

Public defender Evie Lincoln ( Lisa Nicole Carson ) talks with her client Joshua Bingham ( JR Bourne ) about his case.

The cases ranged from famous assassinations ( of Abraham Lincoln, Leon Trotsky, and Julius Caesar ) and the lives ( and often deaths ) of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure cases, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua Spooner in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.

Some revisionist historians have used the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed as another example of a relationship that modern people see as ambiguous or possibly gay, but which was most likely to have been a romantic friendship.

Barry Alvarez is a graduate of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where he played linebacker from 1966 to 1968 under Bob Devaney, who became one of his major coaching influences along with Hayden Fry and Lou Holtz.

The Lincoln Fry was a fictional item made up for a viral marketing campaign in 2005.

The Lincoln Fry was featured in a television commercial that ran in the U. S. during February 2005's Super Bowl XXXIX, and in a complementary blog, designed to appear to be an amateur production.

* Lincoln Fry official website

Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

Lincoln put all factions in his cabinet, including Radicals like Salmon P. Chase ( Secretary of the Treasury ), whom he later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, James Speed ( Attorney General ) and Edwin M. Stanton ( Secretary of War ).

In December 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Speed Attorney General of the United States.

Speed tuned cars feature in various movies and in songs such as Hot Rod Lincoln.

His uncle, also James Speed, was United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

* A 1967 Lincoln Continental owned by Leftwich was featured on an episode of the show Unique Whips on Speed Channel.

The fact that Lincoln was open about sharing a bed with Speed is seen by some historians as an indication that their relationship was not romantic.

Despite having some political differences over slavery, they corresponded for the rest of their lives and Lincoln appointed Joshua's brother, James Speed, to his cabinet as Attorney General.

Lincoln and Speed lived together, shared a bed in their youth and maintained a lifelong friendship.

Anthony Rotundo notes that the custom of romantic friendship for men in America in the early 19th century was different from that of Renaissance France, and it was expected that men would distance themselves emotionally and physically somewhat after marriage ; he claims that letters between Lincoln and Speed show this distancing after Lincoln married Mary Todd.