yes, Susan ! now you're getting warmer ( sorry for delay ... piano lesson, as in me being taught )

Felicita Vestvali.

I was thinking nobody was going to get it. Extremely well done, Susan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicita_Vestvali

(09-21-2018, 05:06 PM)AussieMick Wrote: I was thinking nobody was going to get it. Extremely well done, Susan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicita_Vestvali

Thanks! I had to look in Donald for actresses that Lincoln had admired.

Not too obscure (I hope) this time ... a hint to start off ... American
   

Judge Thomas C. Browne of the Illinois Supreme Court? He attended the Lincolns' wedding in 1842. He was a blunt man not accustomed to weddings. As Abraham was putting the wedding ring on Mary's hand and repeating the words, "With this ring I thee endow with all my goods, chattels, lands, and tenements," Browne impatiently blurted out, "God Almighty, Lincoln, the statute fixes all that."

(09-23-2018, 04:43 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Judge Thomas C. Browne of the Illinois Supreme Court? He attended the Lincolns' wedding in 1842. He was a blunt man not accustomed to weddings. As Abraham was putting the wedding ring on Mary's hand and repeating the words, "With this ring I thee endow with all my goods, chattels, lands, and tenements," Browne impatiently blurted out, "God Almighty, Lincoln, the statute fixes all that."

No, sorry Roger.

#1 He started in law but later became involved in financial issues.
#2 He had a theory about slavery

   

#1 He started in law but later became involved in financial issues.

#2 He had a theory about slavery

#3 He was in line to be President, but a technicality would have prevented it.

Technically too young? Or no native American (I think that was ambitious Arnie's problem...)

(09-23-2018, 07:50 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Technically too young? Or no native American (I think that was ambitious Arnie's problem...)

Technically too young, Eva

(Obviously that image is of him near the end of his life)

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He committed a crime.

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Summary ...

#1 He started in law but later became involved in financial issues.

#2 He had a theory about slavery

#3 He was in line to be President, but a technicality (too young) would have prevented it.

#4 He committed a crime.

#5 He was pardoned.

Is there some direct Lincoln connection? (Did they meet, correspond, admire "each" other resp. unidirectionally?)

Robert Hunter?

ok ... back awake ... No , sorry Roger, not Robert Hunter.

I was going to give as a hint, Eva, this man was no friend of Lincoln.

#1 He started in law but later became involved in financial issues.

#2 He had a theory about slavery

#3 He was in line to be President, but a technicality (too young) would have prevented it.

#4 He committed a crime.

#5 He was pardoned.

#6 He was president for a short time

David Rice Atchison?

No, sorry Roger (but you're giving me lots of names that will keep me busy researching).

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#1 He started in law but later became involved in financial issues.

#2 He had a theory about slavery

#3 He was in line to be President, but a technicality (too young) would have prevented it.

#4 He committed a crime.

#5 He was pardoned.

#6 He was president for a short time (sorry ... that's a trick hint)

#7 No friend of Lincoln

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And that "theory" of his about slavery ? I dont think he ever said specifically what it was ... but I am certain that he would have been forced to admit that it was wrong.