On this day in 1834, Lincoln began his first political position, as a state legislator in my hometown. He was 25. This page is from that day in the Journal of the House of Representatives of the 9th Illinois General Assembly. His colleague named there, John T. Stuart, became his mentor and later his law partner. The statehouse at the time was a brick building on Fourth Street near Gallatin, about where the Copper Penny Restaurant now stands.
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