Lincoln Mary said No!

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September 23, 1849
Abraham Lincoln had just finished his first term in the US House of Representatives, but he was looking for a different political position. President Taylor offered him the governorship of the Oregon Territory. But in a letter to Thomas Ewing, the Secretary of the Interior, he respectfully declined. Lincoln decided to return to his law practice rather than relocating his family to the remote Western Territory.

 

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September 23, 1849
Abraham Lincoln had just finished his first term in the US House of Representatives, but he was looking for a different political position. President Taylor offered him the governorship of the Oregon Territory. But in a letter to Thomas Ewing, the Secretary of the Interior, he respectfully declined. Lincoln decided to return to his law practice rather than relocating his family to the remote Western Territory.
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I'll bet she did, too! Considering how Washington society criticized her as an unsophisticated frontierswoman from Illinois, the mockery she'd have had to endure if she'd come from Oregon might have been even worse.

 

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IIRC, Thomas Ewing was W.T. Sherman's Father in law. Small world back then.