Other contemporaries, however, recalled Lincoln’s legislative debut more positively. Jesse K. Dubois asserted that before the session ended, “Lincoln was already a prominent man.” John Locke Scripps wrote in an 1860 campaign biography (which Lincoln read and corrected) that Lincoln “acquired the confidence of his fellow-members as a man of sound judgment and patriotic purposes, and in this manner he wielded a greater influence in shaping and controlling legislation than many of the noisy declaimers and most frequent speakers of the body.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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