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Lincoln’s Law Partner
Contact with presidents runs in the family. His great-great-great uncle William Herndon was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner and was the first Lincoln biographer. His copious letters and detailed, daily journals have been the prime source for every other biographer since.
An ever-so-great aunt, Ellen Lewis Herndon, born in Culpeper, was married to Chester A. Arthur but died of pneumonia just a year before he was sworn in as vice president. After Garfield was assassinated, President Arthur always left an empty place at state events where his first lady would have presided, placed fresh flowers daily near her silverframed portrait and pre
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