Before the election Lincoln served as a captain in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War.

Lincoln served as New Salem's postmaster and later as county surveyor, all the while reading voraciously.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

Three presidents have appointed justices who collectively served more than 100 years: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

Vince graduated from Lincoln High School, attended San Francisco State University, and served as an Army cook in the Korean War.

Wallace served as Governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861 – 1862 and foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration.

Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

The 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter served as a " wake-up call ", and astronomers responded by starting programs such as Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research ( LINEAR ), Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT ), Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search ( LONEOS ) and several others which have drastically increased the rate of asteroid discovery.

Franzwa served as the first president of the revitalized Lincoln Highway Association, in 1992.

Seward served as president of the S. S. Seward Institute after the death of his father, even while serving as Secretary of State during the Lincoln and Johnson administrations.

Seward was portrayed by Bruce Davison in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the American Civil War.

Others say it was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Lincoln County is served by the newspaper Daily Leader, printed daily except Monday and Saturday.

President Abraham Lincoln's half third cousin, Thomas Lincoln ( 1780 – 1844 ), lived in the Meshack Creek area of present day Monroe County and served two terms as constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and 1804.

It served as a location for both Stephan A. Douglas ( October 11, 1858 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( October 22, 1858 ) to speak to residents of the area as they were running against each other for the US Senate.

Maytown is noted as the birthplace of 19th century politician Simon Cameron, who served in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln Trails Council has its headquarters in Decatur, Illinois, and is served by Woapink Lodge # 167. Lincoln Trails Council

It was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.

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

She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

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.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

alt = A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump, holding a book open on his lap

Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

In 1832, at age 23, Lincoln and a partner bought a small general store on credit in New Salem, Illinois.

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.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

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

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

Lincoln arranged for an intermediary to make inquiry into Grant's political intentions, and being assured that he had none, submitted to the Senate Grant's promotion to commander of the Union Army.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

Johnson's tenure in the Senate came to a conclusion when Lincoln appointed him military governor of occupied Tennessee in March 1862.

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln hangs over the west staircase in the Senate wing.

* June 16 – Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party ( United States ) nomination for a seat in the US Senate, delivering his " House Divided " speech in Springfield, Illinois.

Without examining it or debating its provisions, both the Senate and House approved it, and President Lincoln signed it.

As a young lawyer, Stevenson encountered such celebrated Illinois attorneys as Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, campaigning for Douglas in his 1858 Senate race against Lincoln.

Lincoln also gave a brief speech in Danville in 1858 while campaigning for U. S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas ; Lincoln gave the speech in his stocking feet while standing on the balcony at the home of Dr. William Fithian, a prominent local physician.

When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.

In 1871, John Clayton was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing Jefferson County and in 1873, he served in the Arkansas Senate representing Jefferson, Bradley, Grant and Lincoln Counties, also serving as Speaker of the Senate pro tempore for part of his term.

On October 22, 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Carthage while campaigning for the Senate.

U. S. Senator ( Iowa ) James W. Grimes proposed Senate Bill 82, " to promote the efficiency of the Navy " which included a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor which was signed into law ( 12Stat329 ) by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21, 1861.

Pryor and his Senate colleague, Blanche Lincoln, both say that Gonzales promised Cummins ' replacement, Tim Griffin, would go before the Senate for confirmation.

The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U. S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator ; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.

In the Senate, Sen. Sumner suppressed open debate in order to save Lincoln ’ s administration from embarrassment.