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Author Fraker, Guy C., 1938-

Title Lincoln's ladder to the presidency : the Eighth Judicial Circuit / Guy C. Fraker ; with a foreword by Michael Burlingame.

Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2012.

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 Axe Special Collections Baron  340 F843l 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
Contents A new country -- As happy as he could be -- Purely and entirely a case lawyer -- Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford -- McLean, Livingston, Logan, DeWitt -- Piatt, Champaign, Vermilion -- Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason -- The 1840s and the early 1850s -- The awakenment -- The repeal ... aroused me again -- The tall sucker and the little giant -- A little sketch -- No stone unturned -- We saw him no more.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Career in law.
Illinois. Circuit Court (8th Circuit) -- History -- 19th century.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (OCoLC)fst00030184
Illinois. Circuit Court (8th Circuit) (OCoLC)fst01914339
Law -- Illinois -- Downstate Illinois -- History -- 19th century.
Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
Illinois -- Downstate Illinois. (OCoLC)fst01302402
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780809332014 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0809332019 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780809332021 (ebook)
0809332027 (ebook)

 
    
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