Tyro though he was, Lincoln handled much of the business of the firm, for politics monopolized Stuart’s attention. Defeated in 1836 for Congress, Stuart renewed his quest for that seat the very day after he lost. Lincoln got off to a bad start when Stuart sent him to represent John W. Baddeley, a blunt, English-born merchant of McLean County. When the haughty, aristocratic Baddeley beheld the unprepossessing young attorney, he promptly dismissed him and hired James A. McDougall in his stead.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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