Lincoln would be elected to a federal seat as a US House Representative and served from 1847 to 1849. He was only elected for one two year term. Election popularity would escape him for the most part.
Lincoln was a Whig for a good part of his career. (click here) The Douglas - Lincoln debates set the stage in 1858 for the emergence of a Republican Party. He determined as a Whig he could not be elected to the US Senate, so he cast his net during those Senate nominations to return to fight a different day and as a Republican.
While he was in the US House of Representatives he wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia (Washington, DC). The bill did not pass and he was not re-elected after insulting the then President Polk for the Mexican - American War.
But, Abraham Lincoln as a "Prairie Lawyer" was well known for the moral content of his practice and stayed involved with politics and legislation. If I was to characterize Abraham Lincoln and his politics it would be as a loyalist to the USA Constitution.
He would be nominated for US Senate as a Republican in 1858. With that nomination he became a leading political voice in the United States.
His views never wavered. He would eventually strike his mark as a political leader with his "House Divided Against Itself" speech. In fact the concept was biblical which proves his devote belief.
Mark 3:25 "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
This was the time of the Dred Scott Decision. (click here)
Abraham Lincoln stated the United States Supreme Court had turned against the Founding Fathers. He denounced the decision. The United States Supreme Court divided the country with the Dred Scott Decision.
Abraham Lincoln would become the one moral voice that found it's pinnacle in the White House.
Picture to the right is a painting of Dred Scott.
Lincoln was a Whig for a good part of his career. (click here) The Douglas - Lincoln debates set the stage in 1858 for the emergence of a Republican Party. He determined as a Whig he could not be elected to the US Senate, so he cast his net during those Senate nominations to return to fight a different day and as a Republican.
While he was in the US House of Representatives he wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia (Washington, DC). The bill did not pass and he was not re-elected after insulting the then President Polk for the Mexican - American War.
But, Abraham Lincoln as a "Prairie Lawyer" was well known for the moral content of his practice and stayed involved with politics and legislation. If I was to characterize Abraham Lincoln and his politics it would be as a loyalist to the USA Constitution.
He would be nominated for US Senate as a Republican in 1858. With that nomination he became a leading political voice in the United States.
His views never wavered. He would eventually strike his mark as a political leader with his "House Divided Against Itself" speech. In fact the concept was biblical which proves his devote belief.
Mark 3:25 "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln stated the United States Supreme Court had turned against the Founding Fathers. He denounced the decision. The United States Supreme Court divided the country with the Dred Scott Decision.
Abraham Lincoln would become the one moral voice that found it's pinnacle in the White House.
Picture to the right is a painting of Dred Scott.
