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Lincoln Began Rise From New Salem to Springfield Leadership
Elmo Scott Watson recounts Abe Lincoln in 1835 1837 Vandalia Illinois as a young legislator. Lincoln, then twenty eight, volunteers, debates public lands and national bank, leads Long Nine to move the capital to Springfield, then starts law practice there. Beveridge notes how a 26 year old in 1835 became a future president from humble beginnings.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Ilinois
Vandalia
Sangamon County
New Salem
General Assembly
Abe Lincoln
Vandalla
Illinois
United States
Lincoln
Albert J. Beveridge
Abraham Lean
Houghton Mifflin Company
Sangamon
Abraham Lincoln
Beveridge
Kaskaskia River
Washington
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Springfield
Coleman
Smoot
Newslem
Salt Creek
Congress of the
National Bank
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Joseph Duncan
George Crogan
Leutenants
Congress
Fort Stephenson
Illinois and
Michigan Canal
Vaing
Alton
Springeld
Jacksonville
Peoria
Job Fletcher
Archer Herndon
John Dawson
Dan Stone
Ninian W. Edwards
William F. Elkin
R. L. Wilson
Andrew McCormick
Long Nine
Supreme Court
Bar of Illinois
Sangamon Journal
J. T. Stuart & A. Lincoln
Hoffman's Row
House of Representatives