(02-26-2021 05:53 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Since you didn't forbid looking up in (non-virtual) books - my copy of "The Global Lincoln" (one of my top favorites) says that Cuba was the first in 1937.
I just checked the sources, and the note there reads "Lincoln had already appeared on a Philippines issue in 1906, when the country was under US-administration"

(02-27-2021 04:55 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Kudos to Eva and David. According to the latest issue of the Lincoln Herald it was indeed Cuba in 1937. The information is from an article by William D. Pedersen entitled "Abraham Lincoln's International Legacy in 16 Postage Stamps." Apparently Cuban dictator, Fulgencia Batista, either wanted to gain favor with the United States or simply connected to Lincoln because he also had a humble background. Batista was known to keep a bust of Lincoln on his desk.

(02-27-2021 06:40 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Karl Marx admired Lincoln, too, as did many socialists. One original idea of those systems despite all dictatorism (in the end, without naming anyone, some western politicians turned out dictators, too) is equality and that all people from working class to academics are treated the same. (In practice, they never were, but that was the theory/ideology).