Title: Abraham Lincoln was the only President who was also a licensed bartender
Headings: Abraham Lincoln was the only President who was also a licensed bartender
Abraham Lincoln was the only President who was also a licensed bartender
Content: He even had to work other jobs to earn an extra income. Eventually, they began to spend more time closed than open and they fell in debt. When Berry died, Lincoln assumed the debts from the business. He managed to pay off the debt once he entered Congress in 1847. In 1834, Lincoln ran for the election for state legislature again and this time, he won. He then turned to self-education in law and he left the bartending business for good. An iconic photograph of a bearded Abraham Lincoln showing his head and shoulders. In 1837 Lincoln moved from New Salem to Springfield, where he thought he would have a better chance to get involved in politics, and have a better chance to get involved in politics he did. In 1860 Lincoln ran for president, but once he entered politics he denied selling alcohol by the drink. At the first of the Lincoln – Douglas debates in Ottawa on August 21, 1858, his opponent Stephen Douglass publicly accused Lincoln of operating a ‘grocery’, the frontier euphemism for a tavern.