Quinton mills biography of abraham lincoln
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LINCOLN’S
NEW SALEM
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Title: Lincoln's Unique Salem
Date depose first publication: 1934
Author: Benzoin P. Thomas
Date first posted: Mar. 4, 2019
Date mug updated: Spoil. 4, 2019
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MAIN STREET, Unusual SALEM, Presentation SAMUEL HILL’S RESIDENCE, Interpretation HILL-McNEIL Cargo space, THE LINCOLN-BERRY STORE Illustrious PETER LUKINS’ HOUSE
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BENJAMIN P. THOMAS
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Advisory Committee.
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L. Quincy Mumford, Chairman
Paul M. Angle
Roy P. Basler
David G. Mearns
Clyde Walton
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Ex officio members:
The President of the United States
The President of the Senate
The Speaker of the House of Representatives
Members appointed by the President of the Senate:
Hon. John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky, Chairman
Hon. Homer E. Capehart, Indiana
Hon. Frank Church, Idaho
Hon. Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois
Hon. Paul H. Douglas, Illinois
Hon. William E. Jenner, Indiana
Hon. Ralph W. Yarborough, Texas
Members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives:
Hon. Leo E. Allen, Illinois
Hon. William G. Bray, Indiana
Hon. Frank Chelf, Kentucky
Hon. Winfield K. Denton, Indiana
Hon. Peter F. Mack, Jr., Illinois
Hon. F. Jay Nimtz, Indiana
Hon. John M. Robsion, Kentucky
Hon. Eugene Siler, Kentucky
Members appointed by the President of the United States:
Miss Bertha S. Adkins, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Victor M. Birely, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, New York
Dr. John S. Dickey, New Hampshire
Mr. John B. Fisher, Washington, D.C.
Dr. R. Gerald McMurtry, Indiana
Dr. L. Quincy Mumford, Washington, D.C.
Rev. Paul C. Reinert, Missouri
Mr. Walter N. Rothschild, New York Hon.
William G. Stratton, Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
and Their Friend John Calhoun
Introduction
Background
Surveying Sangamon
The Political Debates of the 1830s
The 1838 Congressional Election
The Lincoln-Douglas-Calhoun Debates of 1839-1840
The 1840 Presidential Election
The Election of 1844 and the Tariff
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Bleeding Kansas in 1855-1857
The Lecompton Constitution
Senator Douglas Versus President Buchanan
The Kansas Territorial Elections
Douglas and the 1858 Congressional Debate
The 1858 Senate Campaign
The Death of Lecompton, Calhoun and Douglas
References
Introduction
Illinois – a large state with a small population in the 1830s – produced an unusual collection of men (they were virtually all men) who shaped the future of the country. Abraham Lincoln was one. Stephen A. Douglas was another. Their mutual friend and colleague, John Calhoun, was a third. Calhoun has appeared in the biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas primarily as a walk-on character. Calhoun shows up, for example, early in young Lincoln’s life when he provides the young New Salem resident with a much-needed job. The role he played in Lincoln’s life over two and a half decades was more substa