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Lincoln's Rail-splitter

Lincoln's Rail-splitter PDF Author: Mark A. Plummer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026492
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Like Lincoln, Oglesby was born in Kentucky and spent most of his youth in central Illinois, apprenticing as a lawyer in Springfield and standing for election to the Illinois legislature Congress, and U.S. Senate. Oglesby participated in the battles of Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War and made a small fortune in the gold rush of 1849. A superlative speaker, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a campaign that featured the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, then was elected to the Illinois senate as Lincoln was being elected president.