Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1861 April 8.

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Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1861 April 8.

Suggesting O.H. Browning for a seat on the Supreme Court.

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Grimshaw, Jackson, fl. 1861.

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Illinois politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1861 April 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503489 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881

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From Quincy, Illinois served as state senator, 1836-1841 and state representative, 1842-1843, delegate to the anti-Nebraska convention in Bloomington, Ill. in 1856 and to the Republican National Convention in 1860, appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill Stephen A. Douglas' seat when he died, and appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Johnson. Formed a law firm in Washington, D.C. in 1863 and practice there until 1866. Returned to Quincy, Ill. in 1869 to practice there. From t...