No American presidency was as dominated by lawyers as the Lincoln Administration. Not only were Lincoln & his VP (Hamlin) veteran lawyers, but so were Seward (State), Cameron & Stanton (War), Chase & Fessenden (Treasury), Bates & Speed (AG), Blair (Postmaster) & Smith (Interior).
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You should write a book titled: 1001 and one reasons lawyers are great. :) It will be a best seller.
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So they proceeded to violate the laws and the Constitution and invade sovereign states. awesome!
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The pre-war defense counsel Edwin Stanton getting Dan Sickles off on a novel temporary insanity defense for summarily executing Francis Scott Key’s grandson across the street from the White House is still one of the most bonkers stories of that age.
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Same was true in an earlier age for men like Adams and Hamilton
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And yet he was a superior war time president to Davis who was a West Point graduate, Colonel in the Mexican War, and Secretary of War in the Pierce administration.
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I would also thrown in Judge David Davis as a highly influential figure in Lincoln’s political ascendancy and his capturing of the 1860 nomination
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