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This Week in History

December 9, 1839
Lincoln meets with the Illinois House of Representatives, located for the first time in Springfield.

December 11, 1843
Lincoln attends the Illinois Whig Party state convention and is chosen as a presidential elector.

December 13, 1818
Lincoln's future wife, Mary Ann Todd, is born in Lexington, Kentucky to Robert and Eliza Todd.

Today in Lincoln's Life

Lincoln's Words
"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, "Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation?"
--Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis, February 11, 1861

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