I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. ---Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected President on November 6 1860, as 16th president of the United States, until he was assassinated on April 14, 1865, in Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County (now Larue County), in Kentucky to a poor family , his father was a carpenter.
When Abraham Lincoln was eight, the Lincolns moved to Indiana. …show more content…
By 1836, his mentors moved his admission to the Illinois Bar and he began his legal career.
Lincoln was a loyal Whig party member. He joined the party as a young man, as soon as it was formed, and became one of a faithful band of Whig members in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1841. and in 1846 was elected to Congress. As part of his campaign, he promised to serve only one term, and he held to that.
As an attorney, he became a very skilled trial lawyer, one of the most powerful attorneys in the state. He eventually handled 175 cases before the Illinois Supreme Court, and acquired leading railroads as clients
Abraham Lincoln went on a campaign tour of Massachusetts, working hard to keep New England's antislavery Whigs from defecting to the ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams
He joined the Republican Party, formed mainly in opposition to slavery that was extending through the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act allowed voters to decide whether their territory could have slaves or be free. Lincoln fought the Kansas-Nebraska Act in
Abraham Lincoln was elected President on November 6 1860, as 16th president of the United States, until he was assassinated on April 14, 1865, in Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County (now Larue County), in Kentucky to a poor family , his father was a carpenter.
When Abraham Lincoln was eight, the Lincolns moved to Indiana. …show more content…
By 1836, his mentors moved his admission to the Illinois Bar and he began his legal career.
Lincoln was a loyal Whig party member. He joined the party as a young man, as soon as it was formed, and became one of a faithful band of Whig members in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1841. and in 1846 was elected to Congress. As part of his campaign, he promised to serve only one term, and he held to that.
As an attorney, he became a very skilled trial lawyer, one of the most powerful attorneys in the state. He eventually handled 175 cases before the Illinois Supreme Court, and acquired leading railroads as clients
Abraham Lincoln went on a campaign tour of Massachusetts, working hard to keep New England's antislavery Whigs from defecting to the ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams
He joined the Republican Party, formed mainly in opposition to slavery that was extending through the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act allowed voters to decide whether their territory could have slaves or be free. Lincoln fought the Kansas-Nebraska Act in