Lincoln's ladder to the presidency
Subtitle: the eighth judicial circuit
By: Guy C. Fraker ; with a foreword by Michael Burlingame
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780809332014; 9780809332021
Subjects: Illinois. Circuit Court (8th Circuit); Law; Illinois; Career in law; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new country; title: As happy as he could be; title: Purely and entirely a case lawyer; title: Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford; title: Mclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt; title: Piatt, Champagne, Vermilion; title: Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason; title: The 1840s and the early 1850s; title: The awakenment; title: The repeal ... aroused me again; title: The tall sucker and the little giant; title: A little sketch; title: No stone unturned; title: We saw him no more.