[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 106 (Friday, July 31, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1511]
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                       LEGACY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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                          HON. JOHN M. SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 31, 1998

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, on August 3, 1846, Abraham Lincoln was 
elected to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois' 
13th Congressional District winning eight of the eleven counties in his 
district and capturing 56% of the vote against candidates from the 
Democrat and Liberty parties.
  Today, my honorable colleague Ray LaHood and I share what was the 
Lincoln district. Ray has nine of the counties and I have two including 
the city of Springfield where Mr. Lincoln lived and was subsequently 
buried.
  Ray and I have a friendly struggle about possession of the Lincoln 
District. In essence it doesn't really belong to either of us but 
rather to the people we represent. But the legacy of Abraham Lincoln 
belongs to us all.

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