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RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-25-2013 08:21 AM

Jim and Roger- both answers are wrong, but Jim is close to how Lamon felt about this man.

Hint # 1 - He was present at the Petersen House when Lincoln died.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-25-2013 08:26 AM

My next guess:

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RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-25-2013 08:27 AM

Another miss, my friend.......

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-25-2013 08:31 AM

Last guess before I leave for the morning constitutional:

[Image: Thaddeus-Stevens.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-25-2013 08:38 AM

Tommy Lee Jones and Thaddeus Stevens are both incorrect answers.

Hint # 1.5 - This man was given a healthy dose of what for by Preston Brooks at one time.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-25-2013 08:40 AM

I just realized I posted the wrong picture - one FINAL guess!

[Image: 220px-Charles_Sumner_1855_BPL-crop.jpg]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Thomas Thorne - 02-25-2013 08:40 AM

Charles Sumner
Tom

RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-25-2013 08:56 AM

Tom and Roger posted at the same time, but Roger squeaked in first. You're both correct; it was Charles Sumner.

In what may be the nation's first recorded round of "Stump the Yankee", after a fiery two day speech in which he insulted several Southerners, Sumner was beaten with a cane by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina. He was badly injured and took years to recover. Brooks resigned and returned to S.C where banquets were held in his honor and he received new canes from all over the South. One was engraved "Good Job". Whether or not this influenced Lamon's opinion of him is unknown, but that's how he put it to Lincoln.

You both win free tickets to Six Flags Over South Carolina.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-26-2013 08:17 AM

When Abe was young he seemed to have crushes on lots of girls. But then, in the years before he met Ann Rutledge, he went through a period where girls were less important to him.

One person said that Abe was so busy studying, "he didn't take much truck with the girls."

Who said that about Abe?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-26-2013 08:28 AM

Dennis Hanks?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-26-2013 08:31 AM

Excellent (and very logical) guess, Joe, but it wasn't Dennis Hanks.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-26-2013 11:32 AM

Hint #1: Lincoln once wrote the following to this person:

"I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit."

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 02-26-2013 11:46 AM

It was a cousin or nephew of his, I can't recall the name.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-26-2013 12:31 PM

I'll say a step brother who was begging money.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 02-26-2013 01:11 PM

Dennis Hanks
Oops--then was it Johnston?
This is confusing--these threads run together--I am going back to my original response: Dennis Hanks.