POLITICAL ANIMALS--President Abraham Lincoln--Some of the things people don't know about Lincoln
***Selected by Joseph Medill--Canadian immigrant who published the CHICAGO TRIBUNE
***How Lincoln was selected at the Republican Convention at the Chicago Convention
***Lincoln enacted an income tax to finance the Civil War
***Lincoln is accused of being a closeted gay/homosexual because he shared a bed with Josauh Speed, his law partner
***Lincoln wa a railroad lawyer
***Lincoln's manipulated the transfer of the Illinois state capitol from Vandalia to Springfield Illinois
***Lincoln's favorite Opera Verdi's Assasination Opera A Masked Ball
Liberals and latterday progressives leery of Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions
Other Births -Deaths & Events relevant to US(a) MAYOR HAROLD Washington First Black Mayor of Chicago
Monte Wooley Gay Friend of Cole Porter & Linda Lee Thomas(lesbian)
Mayor George Christopher--Candlestick Park---Lured the New giantss to San Francisco instead of Los Angeles
President William Howard Taft threw out the first baseball at a baseball game
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