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Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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the bar when he joined the ranks ofthe profession. That they were a remarkablytalented company does not admit of doubt. Among the members of the backwoods legis-lature to which Lincoln was first elected werea future President of the United States, afuture candidate for the Presidency, six futureLTnited States senators, eight future membersof Congress, a future cabinet secretary, andno less than three future judges of the State,to say nothing of other men who distinguishedthemselves professionally in later years. Almostwithout exception, these men were lawyers,, andLincoln met and practised against them during The careers of Douglas and Lincoln were strangely parallel. Bothmen were born to poverty and they were both self-educated.They were members of the same Illinois legislature, competitorsin the same profession and before the same courts, rivals for thehand of the same woman, ran against each other for the UnitedStates senatorship, and were opposing candidates for thePresidency. 90
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The Hon. James A. McDougall The Hon. Lyman TrumbullThe Hon. O. H. Browning Maj .-Gen. John A. McClernand HIS EARLY CASES the three-and-twenty years of his professionallife. To have held his own in such a brilliantcoterie would certainly have been a creditableachievement, but it can be demonstrated that Lin-coln not only held his own but, earfy in his career,became one of the leaders, if not the leader, of theSpringfield bar. It may be urged, however, thatmost of his competitors were politicians, and notlawyers of marked ability, so it is proper to exam-ine their records a little more minutely. Stephen T. Logan, who came originally fromKentucky, was elected a judge of the CircuitCourt, and is admitted to have been the best nisiprius (trial) lawyer in the State. He wasundoubtedly the leader of the Illinois bar formany years. Edward Dickenson Baker, the Illinois con-gressman, leader of the California bar, and theUnited States senator from Oregon, had anational reputation as an orator, an

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