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Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and businessman. The eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, he was the only one of their four children to outlive his parents. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company president, and served as both United States Secretary of War (1881–1885) and the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1889–1893).
27 de mar. de 2012 · Meticulously researched, full of never-before-seen photographs and new insight into historical events, Giant in the Shadows is the missing chapter of the Lincoln family story. Emerson’s riveting work is more than simply a biography; it is a tale of American achievement in the Gilded Age and the endurance of the Lincoln legacy.
Robert Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son, was a student at Harvard during most of the Civil War. On July 1–3, 1863, when Union forces under General George G. Meade stopped the northern advance of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, “Bob” Lincoln had finished his spring semester at Harvard and was free to travel elsewhere.
2 de may. de 2015 · Robert Todd Lincoln died on July 26, 1926, six days before his 83rd birthday. He was seemingly surrounded by death his entire life – not just presidents, but also his brothers, his parents, his young son – yet persevered to carve out his own successes and legacy while honoring his famous name.
Saturday, February 08, 1862. Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, visited Mount Vernon on February 8, 1862. His signature in the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association visitor guestbook appears above the signature of Lucy Lambert Hale, a socialite and friend of Robert Todd Lincoln.
26 de ago. de 2015 · 2. The Booth Family Did Him a Favor. Getty Images. In 1863 or 1864, young Robert Lincoln was traveling by train from New York to Washington during a break from his studies at Harvard. He hopped ...
18 de feb. de 2014 · Robert T. Lincoln was Abraham and Mary's oldest and last-surviving son, yet little has been published about the lawyer, businessman and statesman who lived d...
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