This Week in History
December 1, 1864
Attorney General Edward Bates resigns his position and President Lincoln appoints James Speed of Kentucky to the office.
December 2, 1819
Lincoln's widowed father and Sarah Bush Johnston are married in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in a ceremony officiated by Rev. George L. Rogers.
December 6, 1864
President Lincoln nominates former cabinet member Salmon P. Chase as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today in Lincoln's Life
Lincoln's Words
"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not
with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you,
is the question, "Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be
preserved to the latest generation?"
--Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis, February 11, 1861
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