Title: Robert Lang Wilson lawyer in Athens Description: Robert Lang Wilson (1805-?), a lawyer in Athens, Illinois, ten miles from Springfield, Illinois; one of seven Whig Party representatives sent in 1836 by the Ninth General Assembly of Illinois, together with two state senators, to the Illinois Legislature; Abraham Lincoln, who had been elected to the Legislature, was among them; the men were all tall, so they were known as "the Long Nine" Lincoln, at six-foot, four inches, was the tallest and became their leader; the Legislature convened at Vandalia, Illinois, on December 1, 1834, and met in daily session until February, 1835; Lincoln's first proposal was "to limit the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace" during his first term, Lincoln was shy and had little to say, but watched and listened; in Vandalia, he met Stephen A. Douglas (April 23, 1813-June 3, 1861), the newly-elected twenty-three-year-old Democratic member from Morgan County, Illinois. Study Application Notes: Abraham Lincoln ("Honest Abe," "The Rail Splitter," "The Great Emancipator"), born February 25, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, died April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C.; sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Lincoln was self-taught, moving at age twenty-two to Illinois in 1831, working on a flatboat, then later as a rail-splitter and store clerk, until moving to Springfield, Illinois to work as a lawyer in 1837; he served four terms as a state representative from Sangamon County, Illinois as a Whig; he married Mary Todd (Mary Anne Todd; December 13, 1818-July 16, 1882) in 1842, a union that produced four sons: Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843-July 26, 1926); Edward "Eddie" Baker Lincoln (March 10, 1846-February 1, 1850); William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln (December 21, 1850-February 20, 1862); and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (April 4, 1853-July 16, 1871); Background Information: Lincoln was narrowly elected the sixteenth President of the U.S. in 1860 as a Republican. He worked hard to preserve the Union, though eleven southern States had seceded and a Civil War ensued; his Emancipation Proclamation, announced on September 22, 1862 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, essentially freed the slaves and, with his Gettysburg Address, are some of the greatest documents ever produced by an American President; Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) and died the next day; Lincoln is buried in the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois; several films profile Lincoln, the most notable being Abraham Lincoln (1930), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Collection, abolitionists, American Civil War (1861-1865), anti-slavery, assassinations, attorney, debates, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Illinois, Illinois Legislators, Kentucky, lawyers, the Long Nine, New Salem, Illinois, politicians, presidential debates, presidents of the U.S., rail-splitters, slavery, Springfield, Illinois, U.S. Congress, U.S. Presidents, U.S. Senate, War of 1812, Whig political party. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1298 (1.56 MPixels) (1.08) Print Size: 10.2 x 11.0 cm; 4.0 x 4.3 inches File Size: 4.48 MB (4,699,898 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530036 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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