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Title: Abraham Lincoln's executive routine
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Lincoln Lore Bulletin of the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum. Mark E. Neely, Jr., Editor.February, 1981 Mary Jane Hubler, Editorial Assistant. Published each month by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801. Number 1716 Of Tangled Stories and Charnwoods Lincoln
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From the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum FIGURE 1. The centennial celebration of Lincolns birth in 1909 helpedmake Lincolns image a powerful national symbol. By the time of WorldWar I, Lincolns face appeared frequently in war propaganda. In the sameera, Charnwoods Lincoln helped make him an international figure. Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Lord Charn-wood, was an unlikely Lincoln biographer. TheBritish upper classes were notoriously pro-Southern during the American Civil War, andhe was born in that station in life in 1864. Hedid well at Oxford University, where he waslater a tutor. He became a Member ofParliament and the Mayor of Lichfield. After his graduation from Oxford in 1887,Charnwood made a tour of the United States.He returned briefly—to Boston and NewYork—in 1894. In politics, he was a Liberal. Hewas obviously interested in the United States,and, as a boy, he had read Charles G. LelandsAbraham Lincoln, a book memorable enoughto be mentioned in the brief bibliograp

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