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Partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Political party. Republican. 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 .
- Partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln
- William Henry Herndon, December 25, 1818, Greensburg, Kentucky, U.S.
- Republican
- March 18, 1891 (aged 72), Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
14 de abr. de 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
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.
1 de may. de 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.
- Douglas L. Wilson
Nearly 10 years younger than Lincoln, Herndon was more widely read, more emotional at the bar, and generally more extreme in his views. Yet this partnership seems to have been as nearly perfect as such human arrangements ever are. Lincoln and Herndon…
5 de jun. de 2018 · William Henry Herndon was Lincoln’s law partner at the time of the trial. (Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) The law office of Lincoln and his younger partner, William...
William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 477-79. Jesse W. Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait, p. 334. Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois (Letter from William H. Herndon to Abraham Lincoln, August 29, 1863).
