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| From 1816 to 1830, Lincoln grew up in a place now known as LINCOLN CITY, INDIANA where his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is currently buried. |
| Lincoln served in the MILITARY as an OFFICER in the Black Hawk WAR. |
| Lincoln was a BOAT CAPTAIN and worked as the assistant pilot of the Talisman, a Mississippi River boat. |
| On June 13, 1836, 24 years before he became president, Lincoln was the first elected official in U.S. history to favor extending the vote to women. State legislator Lincoln gave an Illinois newspaper a statement endorsing "FEMALE SUFFRAGE." |
| Lincoln was elected to CONGRESS in '46. |
| Lincoln was the RUNNER-UP for the nomination of VICE PRESIDENT in '56. |
| In 1867, the ARMY MEDICAL LIBRARY was moved to FORD'S THEATER, the site of the LINCOLN assassination. |
| Lincoln was involved in a historically significant political DEBATE in ILLINOIS - the Lincoln-Douglas debates. |
| The first public suggestion that Lincoln be the Republican candidate for President is believed to have been on November 6, 1858, by Israel Green. He suggested a ticket with Lincoln for President and JOHN P. KENNEDY for Vice President. |
| The Republican CONVENTION was held in CHICAGO in '60 where Lincoln was nominated the PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. |
| In the '60 Presidential election, Herschel JOHNSON was a SOUTHERNER who ran for VICE PRESIDENT on the DEMOCRATIC ticket. |
| Lincoln ran as a MINORITY PARTY CANDIDATE and was considered to be a LONG SHOT for the Presidency. |
| Lincoln was the first President to be BORN outside of the original thirteen colonies; the first to communicate using a transcontinental TELEGRAPH message; and the FIRST TO DIE by assassination. AN INTERESTING NOTE: Lincoln was also the first president to receive a patent (for a device for lifting boats over shoals); the first from the Republican party; the first elected from Illinois; the first to be photographed at his inauguration; the first to make appeals directly to the public (through writing thousands of letters); the first to "pardon" a Thanksgiving turkey; the first to lie in state under the Rotunda; and the first to grace a U.S. coin; the first to wear a beard. AN INTERESTING NOTE: Lincoln grew a beard after an 11 year old girl named Grace Bedell suggested he do so in the fall of 1860. |
| Lincoln's "deist" RELIGIOUS BELIEF caused religious bigots to accuse him of being an infidel, if not an atheist, and of having called Jesus "an illegitimate child." |
| Lincoln was LOVED by the COMMON PEOPLE and HATED by many in the ESTABLISHMENT and called "THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT". |
| Lincoln was elected PRESIDENT in ‘60. |
| Lincoln's defeated opponent, Stephen Douglas, was BORN IN '13. |
| According to Lincoln's friend Joseph Gillespie, Lincoln contented that "WE are more indebted to OUR GOVERNMENT than IT is to US." |
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