page_title: Robert Todd Lincoln
section_title: Minister to the Court of St James's
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Todd Lincoln / Politics / Minister to the Court of St James's
caption_attribution_description: English: William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, and Robert Todd Lincoln, standing, left to right. At Lincoln Memorial.
context_page_description: Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer, businessman. and politician. He was the eldest child of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and the only one of their four children to live to adulthood. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company president, and served as U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
  Lincoln was born in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from Harvard College before serving on the staff of Ulysses S. Grant as a captain in the Union Army in the closing days of the American Civil War. After the war, he married Mary Eunice Harlan, and they had three children together. Following completion of law school in Chicago, he built a successful law practice, and became wealthy representing corporate clients.
  Active in Republican politics, and a tangible symbol of his father's legacy, Lincoln was often spoken of as a possible candidate for office, including the presidency, but never took steps to mount a campaign. The one office to which he was elected was town supervisor of South Chicago, which he held from 1876 to 1877; the town later became part of the city of Chicago.
context_section_description: Lincoln served as the U.S. minister to the United Kingdom, formally the Court of St James's, from 1889 to 1893 under President Benjamin Harrison. Lincoln's teenage son, Abraham II "Jack", died during this time in Europe. After serving as minister, Lincoln returned to private business as a lawyer.
caption: Chief Justice Taft, President Harding and Lincoln at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922
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