Author: Matthew Pinsker

Abraham Lincoln in 1846. Image courtesy of the House Divided Project and Library of Congress.

A. Lincoln, Conventioneer

Abraham Lincoln was a diehard politico and devoted partisan, but he only attended one national party convention, a Whig gathering that took place in Philadelphia in 1848. He was not even an official delegate to that big event, but just elbowed his way in among thousands of attendees. Yet, like ...
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