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William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818 – March 18, 1891) was a law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. He was an early member of the new Republican Party and was elected mayor of Springfield, Illinois . Herndon and Jesse W. Weik wrote the book Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, published in 1889.
William H. Herndon (1819-1891) Lincoln and Herndon’s Law Office, 1860. “Mr. Lincoln was the most generous, forebearing, and charitable man I ever knew,” said William H. Herndon. 1 Herndon was the third and last law partner to Abraham Lincoln after partnership with Stephen Logan was dissolved in 1844. Mr.
14 apr 2015 · Appropriately, the first person to attempt a historical reconstruction of Lincoln was William Herndon, who could fairly claim to have known him best in the Springfield days.
- Josh Zeitz
1 mag 2000 · William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer, made a record of "secret and private things" about Lincoln in two memorandum books that long ago disappeared. Now diary...
- Douglas L. Wilson
American lawyer. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Lincoln. In Abraham Lincoln: Prairie lawyer. …and finally, from 1844, of William H. Herndon. Nearly 10 years younger than Lincoln, Herndon was more widely read, more emotional at the bar, and generally more extreme in his views.
Colleague Henry Clay Whitney wrote: “The closest and most intimate political and personal friend that Mr. Lincoln had, during the slavery extension struggle, was his partner, William H. Herndon: he was likewise his political Mentor: and had more to do with shaping his friend’s great political career than any other ten men.” 16 Donald ...
9 mar 2012 · Herndon's life of Lincoln, the history and personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln as originally written by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik; : Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891; Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930. Publication date. 1949. Topics.
