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January 01, 1855

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Monday, January 1, 1855
 Springfield, IL.

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With selection of U.S. senator impending, Lincoln buys stack of small notebooks and lists members of legislature, labelling each Democrat, Whig, Anti-Nebraska Democrat (D., W., A.N.D.), or otherwise. His analysis shows, in Senate, 11 Democrats, 9 Whigs, 5 Anti-Nebraska Democrats. In House he finds 30 Democrats, 28 Whigs, 14 Anti-Nebraska Democrats, 1 Nebraska Whig, 1 Abolitionist, 1 vacancy. Lincoln copies this into several notebooks and gives them to friends as guides in senatorial campaigning. List of Members of the Illinois Legislature in 1855, [1 January 1855?], CW, 2:296-98. 

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With selection of U.S. senator impending, Lincoln buys stack of small 
notebooks and lists members of legislature, labelling each Democrat, 
Whig, Anti-Nebraska Democrat (D., W., A.N.D.), or otherwise. His 
analysis shows, in Senate, 11 Democrats, 9 Whigs, 5 Anti-Nebraska 
Democrats. In House he finds 30 Democrats, 28 Whigs, 14 Anti-Nebraska 
Democrats, 1 Nebraska Whig, 1 Abolitionist, 1 vacancy. Lincoln copies 
this into several notebooks and gives them to friends as guides in 
senatorial campaigning.
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