Leader of campaign to petition Congress for admission to the Union, November-December 1817
Image courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Springfield, Illinois
Illinois’s territorial delegate to Congress who guided federal legislation to enable Illinois Territory to begin the process of admission
Image courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Springfield, Illinois
Leading member of Illinois’s first constitutional convention in the summer of 1818
Image courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Springfield, Illinois
Governor of Illinois Territory, leader of political faction and mentor to Daniel Pope Cook
Image courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Springfield, Illinois
Territorial judge, leader of anti-Edwards faction, and mentor to Elias Kent Kane
Image courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library,
Springfield, Illinois