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- 1816: His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them. Life on the American frontier in the early 19th century was no picnic for anyone; it required hours of back-breaking toil and drudgery day in and day out.
- 1818: His mother died. This, at least, is no embellishment. Lincoln's mother, Nancy, did die of "milk sickness" in 1818, when Abraham was only nine years old.
- 1831: Failed in business. The statement that Lincoln "failed in business" in 1831 is another misleading claim, because it implies that he was the owner or operator of the failed business, or at least was otherwise responsible for its failure.
- 1832: Ran for state legislature - lost. Lincoln did run for the Illinois state legislature in 1832, although as Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald noted, "the post he was seeking was not an elevated one ...
Defeated for Speaker. Nominated for Illinois House Speaker by Whig caucus. Re-elected to Illinois House (running first in his district) Served as Whig floor leader. 1839. Chosen presidential elector by first Whig convention. Admitted to practice law in U.S. Circuit Court. 1840. Argues first case before Illinois Supreme Court.
YearFailures Or Setbacks1832Lost job Defeated for state legislature1833Failed in business1834Elected to Illinois state legislature1835Sweetheart diedLAC ael 2019-05-13 update (1 card) LAC nsk 2021-09-27 update (1 card)
Jan 17, 2019 · Lincoln's depression was so bleak his friends worried he was going to commit suicide, and they removed knives, razors and scissors from his room. Day after day, Lincoln remained bedridden, unable ...
Jan 12, 2015 · By Ryan Cooper. last updated 12 January 2015. An ill-fated tilt toward bipartisanship was at the core of Abraham Lincoln's greatest mistake. As the Civil War ground on through 1863 and the ...
Jul 6, 2012 · Abraham Lincoln takes the oath of office as the 16th president of the United States administered by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1861.
May 28, 2014 · The persistent, powerful meme of Abraham Lincoln as a “failure at 50.”. After consecutive political defeats in the early 1960s, Richard Nixon decorated his law office with a copper plaque ...
