Thomas, Benjamin Platt, 1902-1956

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Historian and Lincoln biographer.

From the description of Manuscript, 1947. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55941328

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From the description of Abraham Lincoln : a biography : manuscript, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84555519

Historian and Abraham Lincoln biographer.

Thomas wrote Lincoln's New Salem (1934) and Lincoln, 1847-1853 (1936) during his tenure as executive secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association (1932-1936). As an independent writer, Thomas produced Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers (1947); Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom (1950) and Abraham Lincoln, A Biography (1952) and edited Three Years with Grant (1955). He was working on a biography of Edwin Stanton at the time of his death in 1956 which Harold Hyman finished and published in 1962.

From the description of Papers, 1935-1993. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32363847

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associatedWith Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. corporateBody
correspondedWith Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 person
associatedWith Cadwallader, Sylvanus, 1825 or 6- . person
associatedWith Civil War Book Club. corporateBody
associatedWith Davis, Vachel, d. 1966. person
associatedWith Felts, David V., 1900- person
associatedWith Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. person
associatedWith Illinois College. corporateBody
associatedWith King, Willard Leroy, 1893-1981. person
associatedWith Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) corporateBody
associatedWith Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. person
associatedWith McClelland, Clarence Paul, 1883-1974. person
associatedWith Mearns, David Chambers, 1899-1981. person
associatedWith Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972. person
associatedWith National Broadcasting Company, inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Newman, Ralph Geoffrey, 1911- person
associatedWith Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. person
associatedWith Stanton, Gideon T., 1885-1964. person
associatedWith Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965. person
associatedWith Thomas, Salome Kreider. person
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Birth 1902

Death 1956

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