Dr doug graham biography of abraham
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
and Their Friend John Calhoun
Introduction
Background
Surveying Sangamon
The Political Debates of the 1830s
The 1838 Congressional Election
The Lincoln-Douglas-Calhoun Debates of 1839-1840
The 1840 Presidential Election
The Election of 1844 and the Tariff
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Bleeding Kansas in 1855-1857
The Lecompton Constitution
Senator Douglas Versus President Buchanan
The Kansas Territorial Elections
Douglas and the 1858 Congressional Debate
The 1858 Senate Campaign
The Death of Lecompton, Calhoun and Douglas
References
Introduction
Illinois – a large state with a small population in the 1830s – produced an unusual collection of men (they were virtually all men) who shaped the future of the country. Abraham Lincoln was one. Stephen A. Douglas was another. Their mutual friend and colleague, John Calhoun, was a third. Calhoun has appeared in the biographies
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Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln.
By James H. Shaw.
Evergreen City Publishing Company,
Bloomington, Illinois.
TYPOGRAPHY AND PRESSWORK BY
EARL MARQUAM,
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.
CONTENTS
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Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By 1814, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles. In 1816, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in 1818.)
Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal ed