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Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky, and was raised on the frontier, mainly in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois.
Possibly the most notable criminal trial of Lincoln's career as a lawyer came in 1858 when he defended the son of Lincoln's friend, Jack Armstrong. William "Duff" Armstrong had been charged with murder. The case became famous for Lincoln's use of judicial notice—a rare tactic at that time—to show that an eyewitness had lied on the stand.
This article documents the political career of Abraham Lincoln from the end of his term in the United States House of Representatives in March 1849 to the beginning of his first term as President of the United States in March 1861. After serving a single term in the U. S. House, Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked as a ...
Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 – March 25, 1869) was an American lawyer, politician and judge. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential Bates family, he was the first US Cabinet appointee from a state west of the Mississippi ...
Henry S. Cohn, "Abraham Lincoln at the Bar", The Federal Lawyer (May 2012) Brian Dirck, Lincoln the Lawyer (2007) Review; Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Abraham Lincoln's Important Cases ; Brian McGinty, Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (2015) Mark E. Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law ...
Abraham Lincoln was famous for being a self-taught lawyer, and both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are lawyers. Law and politics are often tied closely together. Indeed, I am ...
America's expansion west, which Lincoln strongly supported, was seen as an economic threat to the river trade, which ran north-to-south, primarily on the Mississippi River. In 1856, a steamboat collided with the Rock Island bridge , built by the Rock Island Railroad , between Rock Island, Illinois , and Davenport, Iowa . [ 1 ]
A Look Inside the Town Car of a Real-Life Lincoln Lawyer. Gwen Parkes. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:16 PM. ... there is a lot of work and skill involved in this career path. ...