Law Practice
Feb. 28, 2017
Abe Lincoln: president, lawyer, person
Like the rest of us, Abe put his trousers on one leg at a time. He told dirty jokes, beat his own rugs, and milked his own cow.
James Attridge
Law Ofc of James Attridge
270 Divisadero St #3
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Phone: (415) 552-3088
Email: jattridge@attridgelaw.com
U Denver School of Law
James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.
Abraham Lincoln's first encounter with the law was not unlike that of countless 18-year-old red-blooded American boys before and since: He got arrested. Abe decided early on that he hated farming, and hired out as a laborer, eventually working as a boatman on the Anderson River, which flows through central Indiana and into the Ohio. He got the enterprising idea to build a scow and stash it on the banks of the Ohio and transport travelers from the shore to the main channel, so they could bo...
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