✅ Lincoln's mother died of “milk sickness” in 1818, when he was nine years old. ✅ Lincoln had twice been an unsuccessful Whig candidate for the position of speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. ✅ He went on to win two presidential bids.
” in 1818, when Abraham was only nine years old. A mother’s death is a tragedy for any child, and it was a special hardship for a struggling farm family.The statement that Lincoln “failed in business” in 1831 is another misleading claim, because it implies that he was the owner or operator of the failed business, or at least was otherwise responsible for its failure. None of this is true.
Lincoln and William F. Berry, a corporal from Lincoln’s militia company, purchased a general store in New Salem, Illinois, in 1833. Lincoln and Berry were competing against a larger, well-organized store in the same town; their outfit did little business, and within a short time it had “winked out.”
He was re-elected to the state legislature in 1836 and 1838, both times receiving more votes than any other candidate.He became the partner of “one of the most prominent and successful lawyers in Springfield” .This statement is erroneous. Lincoln was named as a presidential elector at the Illinois state Whig convention on 8 October 1839, and he campaigned as a Whig elector during the 1840, 1844, 1852, and 1856 presidential elections .
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