Young Abe: From Log Cabin to White House
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the middle of no place. He had nearly no formal schooling but rose to become the 16th President of the United States. Allen Guelzo, author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shares the amazing journey of this exceptional male.
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If the best of America could be embodied in one man, that guy would be Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.
Born on February 12, 1809, Lincoln lived his early years in a log cabin with a dirt floor. He explained his childhood and adolescence in Kentucky and later Indiana in bleak terms, as “the backside of this world.”
His dad, Thomas Lincoln, didn’t see much useful worth in official education and his son received nearly none.
Young Lincoln’s instincts pointed in a totally different direction. And, helped by a near-photographic memory, he retained whatever he read.
At age 19, now 6 feet 4 inches high, he dealt with flatboats carrying freight down the Mississippi river lastly settling as a store clerk in New Salem, Illinois. There, Lincoln quickly developed a reputation for excellent humor, scrupulous sincerity, and an intense determination “to maximize himself.”.
In 1832, following a stint in the state militia, he chose to pursue a legal career.
Like numerous attorneys, he was drawn to politics. In 1834, he won election to the state legislature.
Lincoln backed the tenets of the Whig party, which had been organized by Senator Henry Clay as a breakaway from the dominant Democratic party. Clay and the Whigs supported policies which would construct national commercial infrastructure like roadways and canals, create a nationwide bank to stimulate investment and growth into the west, and develop tariffs around struggling American markets to secure them from foreign competitors.
For many Northern Whigs like Lincoln, slavery was also an issue; and in 1837, Lincoln made his very first public declaration versus slavery, condemning it as “founded on injustice and bad policy.”.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to Congress to represent the recently created Seventh District in central Illinois. What he hoped would be the start of a profession in national politics rapidly fizzled. Lincoln slammed President James Polk, a Democrat, for goading Mexico into war. It was a unpopular but principled position and cost him re-election.
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Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the middle of no place. Allen Guelzo, author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shares the impressive journey of this impressive male.
Young Lincoln’s instincts pointed in a completely different direction. In 1846, Lincoln was chosen to Congress to represent the freshly developed Seventh District in central Illinois. Lincoln slammed President James Polk, a Democrat, for goading Mexico into war.
