Thomas, Benjamin Platt, 1902-1956
Variant namesHistorian and Lincoln biographer.
From the description of Manuscript, 1947. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55941328
Author.
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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Birth 1902
Death 1956
