Sunday, June 17, 2012

Today in the Lincoln Conspiracy:  June 18

Abraham Lincoln, attorney at law
Two decades before his ascent to the White House, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer scrambling to establish his name and practice in Springfield, Illinois.  On June 18, 1840, he made his first appearance before the Illinois Supreme Court in the case of Scammon v. Cline.  He won.

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