Lincolns Early political career

Before his election as a president he was a lawyer.
He won the Republican Party nomination in 1860.
Lincoln closely supervised the victorious
war effort.
In 1864 he managed his own reelections.
Opponents of the war criticized Lincoln.
His assassination in 1865 was the first
presidential assassination.
His father was Thomas Lincoln and his mother was Nancy Hanks-two uneducated farmers.
He was born in Hardin County, Kentucky.
The family belonged to a Hardshell Baptist church.
In 1816 they moved in Perry County,
Indiana.
They moved also in Macon County, Illinois
Coles County, Illinois etc.
His formal education consisted of 18 months.
Symbolic log cabin at the A.L Birthplace National
Historic Site.
Lincoln began his military career in 1832,at age 23 with an unsuccessful campaign for Illinois General Assembly.
He was elected captain of an Illinois militia company.
In 1834 he won election to the state legislature.
In 1837 he made his first protest against
slavery.
In 1842 he published some anonymous
letters in the Sangamon Journal.
In 1854 Herndon and Lincoln joined the
The Republican Party.
Sketch of a younger Abraham Lincoln.
 Marriage and family

ON November 4,1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd.
The couple had four sons:
Robert Todd Lincoln-1 August 1843.
Edward Baker Lincoln- 10 March 1846-1 February 1850.
William Wallace Lincoln- 21 December 1850
-20 February 1862.
Thomas Lincoln- 4 April 1853-16 July 1871.
The first photograph ever taken of A. Lincoln

Lincoln was elected to a term in the U. S. House of Represetatives in 1846.
Lincoln later damaged his political reputation with a speech.
William Herndon said that the damage was irreparable.
Lincoln decided not to run in reelections.
Taylor’s people offered him various position but he accepted them.
barges and railroads.
1851 he had a case for Alton ad Sangamon Railroad.
1856 a steamboat collided with a bridge.
1858 he defended William Armstrong.
Lincoln was involved in more than 5100 cases in Illinois.
In the 1920s historical markers were
Placed at the county lines along the
Route Lincoln traveled.

Lincoln returned to politics in return to Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 which repealed the limits of the slavery’s extent as determined by the Missouri Compromise.
In the October 16,1854 Lincoln has a speech among the other orators.
Lincoln’s famous speech was:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free .I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other”.