Western milestones in the life of Abraham Lincoln

AP Online | February 7, 2009| | Copyright

Abraham Lincoln never set foot in what today is the mountain and far Western United States. But his presidency shaped the West in ways big and small. Some Western highlights from Lincoln's life:

_1849: While serving in the U.S. House, Lincoln is offered the post of territorial governor of Oregon by President Zachary Taylor. Lincoln declines the offer.

_1860: Lincoln's election as president ensures slavery would not exist in the far West.

_1861: Soon after taking office, Lincoln condemns the Crittenden Compromise, a Kentucky proposal to assuage secessionist Southerners by ...

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