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<date value='1830-08-02'>Monday, August 2, 1830.</date>
<place key='39.8667, -88.9667' teiForm='name'>Macon County, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [W. L. D. Ewing and John F. Posey are elected to Seventh General Assembly.
Ewing gets 86 votes to 54 for Posey in Decatur. Lincoln does not vote; he is not
eligible under law requiring six months residence.<bibl default='NO'>Edwin D. Davis, "The Hanks Family in Macon County, Illinois," Illinois State
Historical Society, <title>Papers in Illinois History</title> 46
(1939):98-99.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1830-08-16'>Monday, August 16, 1830.</date>
<place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln makes purchase for his father at James Renshaw's store.<bibl default='NO'>Ida M. Tarbell, <title>In the Footsteps
of the Lincolns</title> (New York: Harper, 1924), 161.</bibl>
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