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• W9067683 abstract "Despite neglect by Lincoln scholars and historians, Leonard Swett was one of the dozen or so individuals closest to Lincoln in his adult years.l When David Davis, Lincoln's friend and administrator of his estate, was approached by a prospective biographer, Josiah Holland, for information shortly after the assassination, Davis wrote back: Mssrs. Herndon and Swett were his intimate personal and political friends and can perhaps give you more detailed information concerning the past fifteen years of his life than perhaps any other parties.2 The Lincoln-Swett friendship lasted from the time Swett joined the Eighth Judicial Circuit in 1849, when Lincoln was rejoining the circuit after his disappointing term in the 30th Congress, until the assassination in 1865. Lincoln and Swett were associated or opposing counsel in many lawsuits. Swett was a key player in Lincoln's two Senate races, his two presidential nominations, campaigns, and the formation of his cabinet. Swett grew up on a Maine farm and attended what is now Colby College for three years following a family decision to pass on the farm to his older brother. He read law for a couple of years in Portland, taught school, and tried selling books in the South. When these efforts did not show promise, Swett joined an Indiana regiment in the waning days of the Mexican War. His duty tour in Mexico was brief, but traumatic, and he started for home with a recurring malaria-like illness. Gaunt and fever-ridden, he stumbled into Bloomington, Illinois, in mid-1848. Within a year he recovered, renewed his reading of the law, was admitted to the bar, and met Judge Davis. On his first tour of the circuit, Davis introduced him to Lincoln.3 Born in 1825, Swett was 10 years younger than Davis, and 16 years Lincoln's junior. The three became fast and life-long friends. Politics was an absorbing interest for all and became more than an avocation to lawyering. In Lincoln's first campaign for the Senate in 1854, Swett wrote use me in any way, and Lincoln sent him on an extended trip to sound out support in northern Illinois.4 In the second campaign, the one against Douglas, Swett spoke extensively and was elected to the legislature to assist Lincoln where the election would actually occur. When the 1860 Republican convention convened in Chicago, Swett was David Davis's right-hand assistant in gaining Lincoln's nomination on the third ballot. Once Lincoln's nomination was secured, efforts were focused on uniting the unwieldy coalition that made up the new Republican party, if it was to have a chance to govern. Between the Wigwam success and Inauguration Day, Swett wrote more than two dozen letters to Lincoln apprising him of various aspects of the campaign and Cabinet alternatives.5 Following the election, attention shifted to the tricky task of meshing the competing Republican leaders into a governing administration as the nation splintered in secession. Swett was dispatched to Washington to talk with Congressional leaders and governmental officials to help assess the growing crisis.6 Following these years of effort on Lincoln's behalf, Swett expected to be appointed to some position in the new administration, and Lincoln anticipated an appointment for him, but no permanent assignment developed. Swett was offered three different positions, two in the military and one in the diplomatic corps, each of which he rejected.7 Two temporary appointments did occur-ne to relieve General Fremont of his command in the West, and in the second, his charge was to implement an ill-conceived design by two Cabinet secretaries, following a Supreme Court decision, to seize a California quicksilver mine.8 Swett was disappointed that he was never assigned a formal role, but he did not complain publicly, and remained loyal and dedicated to Lincoln. He found many ways to serve his friend, from acting as a sounding board on major issues to rallying cooperation from a flagging Republican National Committee in the dark days of the summer of 1864, before Sherman took Atlanta. …" @default.
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• W9067683 title "Leonard Swett: Lincoln's Legacy to the Chicago Bar" @default.
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