Education & Positions

•As a young boy he taught himself how to read and write

•He only one year of attending school

•He served in the military during the Black Hawk War.

•In 1813 he was a Major General for New Orleans

•Around the 1830s he became a lawyer in Illinois

•He taught as a teacher

•In 1847-1849 He became part of the U.S. House of Representatives

•In 1854 he was elected to the Illinois state House of Representatives

•In 1860 he was elected as the 16th President of the United States