Letter: Springfield, Ill., to O[rville] H. Browning, Washington, D.C., 1866 July 13.
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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...
Edwards, Ninian Wirt, 1809-1889.
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Illinois' first Superintendent of Public Instruction, 24 March 1854-12 Jan. 1857. From the description of Correspondence, 1854-1855. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 43575442 Springfield, Illinois, lawyer, merchant; son of Illinois governor Ninian Edwards; state attorney general, 1834-1835; member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1836-1840, 1849-1851; Illinois senator, 1844-1848; superintendent of public instruction, 1854-1857. From ...
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...
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...
