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Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Whig Party and later a Republican. He believed that the government’s job was to do what a community of people could not do for themselves. One of his greatest preoccupations as a political thinker was the issue of self-governance and the promise and problems that could arise from it.
House of Representatives (1847-1849), United States. (Show more) Political Affiliation: Republican Party. Whig Party. Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1900) Recent News. May 12, 2024, 6:14 AM ET (The Guardian) Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war. May 2, 2024, 4:31 AM ET (NPR)
14 de jul. de 2023 · Political Career. In 1834, Lincoln began his political career and was elected to the Illinois state legislature as a member of the Whig Party.
Lincoln has been also admired by political figures outside the U.S., including German political theorist Karl Marx, Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Italian Risorgimento, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Libyan revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi.
Lincoln devoted much of his time to presidential politics—to unmaking one president, a Democrat, and making another, a Whig. He found an issue and a candidate in the Mexican War . With his “spot resolutions,” he challenged the statement of President James K. Polk that Mexico had started the war by shedding American blood upon American soil.
29 de oct. de 2009 · Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.
This article documents the political career of Abraham Lincoln from the end of his term in the United States House of Representatives in March 1849 to the beginning of his first term as President of the United States in March 1861.
