Lincoln Abraham - A. Lincoln: A Biography

E DWARD D ICKINSON B AKER (1811 - 61) A close friend, Baker served with Lincoln in the Illinois legislature. Lincoln named his second son, Edward, after Baker. Elected U.S. senator from Oregon, he raised the California Regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War.

E DWARD B ATES (1793 - 1869) Missouri lawyer and conservative Whig politician who took his time in entering the Republican Party. Vied with Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860 and then served as attorney general during the Civil War.

M ONTGOMERY B LAIR (1813 - 83) Member of a distinguished Democratic family who became a Republican over the slavery issue. Served as counsel for Dred Scott. Controversial postmaster general in Lincolns cabinet.

N OAH B ROOKS (1830 - 1903) Correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union who became a close friend of both Abraham and Mary Lincoln. He reported on life inside Lincolns White House, and was slated to become Lincolns secretary in his second term.

O RVILLE H ICKMAN B ROWNING (1806 - 81) Conservative Illinois Republican who supported Edward Bates at the Republican convention. After the death of Stephen Douglas in 1861, Browning was appointed to complete his term. His diary is a source of information on Lincoln.

A MBROSE E VERETT B URNSIDE (1824 - 1881) A likeable and self-effacing West Pointer, Burnside and Lincoln struggled to find the right strategy for the Army of the Potomacs advance south and the curtailment of the Copperhead movement in the Midwest.

S IMON C AMERON (1799 - 1889) As a senator from Pennsylvania, he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1860. With some misgivings, Lincoln appointed him secretary of war in his cabinet.

P ETER C ARTWRIGHT (1785 - 1872) A Methodist circuit-riding evangelist who, as the Democratic candidate, ran against Lincoln in the 1846 congressional election.

S ALMON P . C HASE (1808 - 73) Ohio senator and governor, and an anti-slavery leader in politics, Chase became a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1860. Chase served as secretary of the treasury in Lincolns cabinet. He tried to outflank Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1864. Despite all their differences, Lincoln appointed Chase chief justice of the United States.

H ENRY C LAY (1777 1852) Lincoln admired Clay, a fellow Kentuckian, who three times ran unsuccessfully for president. He advocated Clays American System of strong government support for economic growth. Lincoln called Clay his beau ideal of a statesman.

J AMES C . C ONKLING (1816 - 99) Lincolns neighbor and fellow lawyer; when Lincoln decided he could not return to speak to a Union rally in Springfield in September 1863, he sent Conkling his speech to read at the meeting.

D AVID D AVIS (1815 - 86) Illinois lawyer and judge and a close friend of Lincoln when they traveled together across the Eighth Judicial Circuit in the 1850s. He served as Lincolns campaign manager at the Republican convention in Chicago in 1860.

S TEPHEN A . D OUGLAS (1813 - 61) Illinois Democratic rival, sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 whose language about the extension of slavery into the territories helped prompt Lincolns return to politics. Their debates in 1858 brought Lincoln national attention even though he lost to Douglas in a contest for the Senate. Douglas ran against Lincoln in the presidential contest of 1860.

F REDERICK D OUGLASS (1818 - 95) Editor and abolitionist, Douglass watched Lincoln from a distance starting in 1858, and then met him twice at the White House during the Civil War. A former slave, Douglass formed a distinctive relationship with Lincoln, culminating in Douglasss presence at Lincolns second inauguration.

J OHN C . F RMONT (1813 - 90) The first Republican candidate for president, he lost to James Buchanan in 1856. Lincoln appointed him commander of the Department of the West in July 1861, but the president, Frmont, and Frmonts wife, Jessie, soon differed over government policy, including slavery.

U LYSSES S . G RANT (1822 - 85) Having failed in several civilian jobs in the 1850s, Grant rose through the Union army to become general in chief by the end of the Civil War. As Lincoln went through general after general in the first years of the war, Grant gained the presidents admiration, which was returned in kind.

H ORACE G REELEY (1811 - 72) Founding editor of the New York Tribune and powerful opinion maker, Greeley changed his opinion of Lincoln often. Lincolns reply to Greeleys plea for him to move faster on emancipation marked the beginning of a series of public letters to present his views to a wider public.

P HINEAS D ENSMORE G URLEY (1816 - 68) Lincoln appreciated the sermons of this learned minister of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Lincoln met Gurley in the years he was rethinking the meaning of faith and Gods activity in history.

J OHN J . H ARDIN (1810 - 47) A friend, lawyer, and Whig politician from Jacksonville, Illinois, Hardin opposed Lincoln on internal improvements in the Illinois legislature and defeated him for the Whig nomination for Congress in 1843.

J OHN H AY (1838 - 1905) Young John Hay, a graduate of Brown, served as one of Lincolns secretaries. With a literary flair, he and Lincoln read to each other. Hays diary is one of the most insightful guides to the inner history of the Lincoln administration.

W ILLIAM H . H ERNDON (1818 - 91) Lincolns surprise choice as law partner in 1844. Herndon, so unlike his senior partner in temperament and more radical in his political views, actively supported Lincolns rise in Illinois politics.

J OSEPH H OOKER (1814 - 1879) He earned the nickname Fighting Joe for his courage under fire in the Virginia Peninsula campaign in the spring of 1862. Lincoln appointed him commander of the army of the Potomac in January 1863, and watched, with both admiration and alarm, Hookers military leadership unfold at a critical time in the war.

N ORMAN B . J UDD (1815 - 78) As an anti-Nebraska Democrat, he voted against Lincoln in the legislative vote for the Senate in 1855. Judd became a prominent Republican, chaired the state committee, and became a voice for Lincoln in northern Illinois and at the Republican convention in Chicago in 1860.