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Title: Abraham Lincoln's law partners and students
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Stuart, John Todd, 1807-1885 Lawyers
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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for, though no one appreciated loyalty morethan he, Lincoln was also free of any vindictive spirit. WhenRepublicans who had supported other candidates thanLincoln at the nominating convention in 1860 worriedlywrote him, Lincoln responded that such things were not evenremembered by me for any practical purpose. He would notgo back of the convention, to make distinctions among itsmembers. Personal loyalty was one thing, but party loyalty was quiteanother. Lincoln initiated the most sweeping removal offederal officeholders in the countrys history up to that time.Of 1,520 Presidential officeholders, 1,195 were removed; sincemost Southern offices were left unfilled, this was almost acomplete overturn. He appointed Republicans to almost all ofthese jobs. Lincolns administration, the President explainedfrankly in 1862, distributed to its party friends as nearly allthe civil patronage as any administration ever did. Lincolnnever forgot the lessons of the weakly partisan Tayloradministration.
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RECEIVING HIS VISITORS IX THE GOVERNORS BOOM IN THE STATE HOUSE, SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Kkom a Skktch bi oib Spbcial Auti-t. 1I«. Hinbi Lotik. From the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum FIGURE 5. This comes as close as any contemporary picture to showing Lincoln in the act of distributing offices.After his election in 1860, Lincoln established a temporary office in the Illinois State Capitol to receive visitors.Needless to say, most of these visitors were seeking offices from the new administration either for themselves ortheir friends. CENTRE COLLEGE. JOHN TOO STUART.AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN Introduction Colleges and Universities are proud of their distinguished graduates. Perhaps Centres first distinguished graduate, so far as political honors are concerned, was John Todd Stuart, the son of a Transylvania College professor and Presbyterian minister,Stuart at the age of nineteen graduated from Centre in the fall of 1826, one of forty-one students to complete the liberal arts course

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