He won his first congressional election
Abraham Lincoln was elected to the state legislature in 1834.
State legislature
The state assembly of Illinois.
1834, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the State Legislature in Illinois. He was re-elected to the Illinois State Legislature for 4 terms, or 8 years.
It was the first year he was elected to an office. He was elected to the State Assembly, in Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1834 to 1842 and of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. In 1858 he campaigned for a U.S. Senate seat but lost.
Mission Santa Barbara was secularized in 1834. This happened after the Act for the Secularization of the Missions of California was passed in August 1833.
Lincoln was elected to the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1847, and served for two years. He had previously held office in the Illinois House from 1834-1842.
Abraham Greenawalt was born in 1834.
In 1832 Lincoln decided to run for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party. He was defeated. In fact, Abraham Lincoln lost more elections than he ever won, but he showed great persistence in overcoming the obstacles that belabored him and never gave up. Soon thereafter he was appointed New Salem's postmaster. In 1834 Lincoln again ran for state office, and this time he won the election. Abraham Lincoln served in the Illinois State Legislature (1834-42) and the United States House of Representatives (1847-49).
August 4 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Illinois General Assembly for the first time, representing Sangamon County, which was much larger than it is today. He ran as a member of the Whig Party. This was his second attempt to gain a political office.
Lincoln became a politician starting in 1834. He bacame a laewer in 1837. His political career took off after becoming a Congressman in 1847. He was elected President in 1860, his last job.