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- GLC#
- GLC01978
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- September 9, 1842
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- Elections in Sangamon County, Illinois, for State Representatives...
- Place Written
- Springfield, Illinois
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Lincoln
Said to have been presented to his fiance Mary Todd, listing election results for 1832, 1834 and 1836. Lincoln has signed his name three times, once for each time he ran. Attested by clerk Noah W. Matheny, pages 2-3, with seal on p. 3. See Sandburg, Lincoln Collector, p. 141, and H. Pratt, Lincoln Day by Day, for 9/9/1842.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1848,
p. 297-299
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