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RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-21-2018 01:52 AM

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


RE: Who is this person? - Susan Higginbotham - 09-21-2018 09:27 AM

Felicita Vestvali.


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-21-2018 05:06 PM

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

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


RE: Who is this person? - Susan Higginbotham - 09-21-2018 08:55 PM

(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.


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 12:01 AM

Not too obscure (I hope) this time ... a hint to start off ... American
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RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 09-23-2018 04:43 AM

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."


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 04:51 AM

(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


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 07:18 AM

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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 would have prevented it.


RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 09-23-2018 07:50 AM

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


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 07:54 AM

(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)

He committed a crime.

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.


RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 09-23-2018 09:02 AM

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


RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 09-23-2018 09:22 AM

Robert Hunter?


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 03:50 PM

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


RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 09-23-2018 04:07 PM

David Rice Atchison?


RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 09-23-2018 04:11 PM

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

#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

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.