This Week in History December 2, 1819 Lincoln's widowed father and Sarah Bush Johnston are married in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. December 6, 1864 President Lincoln nominates former Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. December 7, 1848 Lincoln takes his seat with the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." --Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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