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Abraham Lincoln

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             In 1832 Lincoln announced himself a candidate for state legislature but he was defeated. Then a year later he was appointed postmaster of New Salem and in the fall he became deputy county surveyor. He really wanted a seat in the Illinois legislature so he ran again and was elected with bipartisan support. Lincoln was very interested in being a lawyer; he would walk fifteen miles just to watch the court cases in Boonville, Indiana. Lincoln got a license to practice law after several hard years of teaching himself. By the early 1850's the Lincoln-Herndon law office had become a leading Springfield firm. .
             Chairman of the Senates Committee on territories, Stephan A. Douglas came out with a new congressional act. Lincoln thought the Kansas-Nebraska Act was just wrong. In the summer of 1854 Lincoln decided to campaign for a position in the Illinois State Assembly. In November he won but resigned because he wanted a seat in the United States Senate, where he thought he could make a real difference. He was defeated by Lyman Trumbull but in 1856. Lincoln was helping to create a new political party in Illinois called the Republicans. .
             The party's first and primary goal was to prevent President James Buchanan from winning presidency. It failed. Then two days after Buchanan's inauguration the Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise "unconstitutional" and denied that Negroes could never be considered American citizens. On June 16, 1858 the .
             Illinois State Convention Nominated Lincoln to run against Stephan Douglas for United States Senate. .
             The seven Lincoln-Douglas debates during the late summer and fall of 1858 were the highlight of the campaign, in towns all over the state. Ten thousand people attended to the opening three-hour debate in Ottawa, Illinois, and there were fifteen thousand at the second one in Freeport.


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