Lincoln and Douglas (Jan Jacobi - YA) school As Clemens discovered

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Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year

Lincoln and Douglas (Jan Jacobi - YA) school As Clemens discoveredby Jan Jacobi Abraham Lincoln saw himself as the tortoise in a hopeless race against Stephen Douglas, the charismatic hare. Lincoln was perpetually in Douglass shadow. Theyd been friends and colleagues since they first met in the Illinois legislature in 1835. Douglas became the boy wonder of American politics while Lincoln failed in his one term in the House of Representatives. In 1849, believing his political career to be over, Lincoln returned to