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Before being elected to the office of President, Abraham Lincoln served in both the state and national House of Representatives. Prior to his career in politics, Lincoln had success in banking and commerce.

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He practiced law before he entered politics. Before he was president he served in the New Hampshire legislature and later as US Congressman and US Senator.

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Before he was president, he worked as a blacksmith, a postmaster and a U.S. congressman.

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He was a lawyer.

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