Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, ...

But he did. In 1859, he made a series of speeches in Ohio campaigning to be the Republican candidate for president in the 1860 election. In Cincinnati on Sept. 17, 1859, Lincoln spoke from the ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on this day, April 15, 1865, ... He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1846 as a member of the Whig Party, notes AbrahamLincoln.org.

In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist. By Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell On 4/4/25 at 10:37 AM EDT ...

In And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Meacham wasn't just interested in looking at what Lincoln did — he wanted to know why he did it.He focused especially on the ...