WORK EXPERIENCE
Lincolns non political work experience included Farmhand, clerk, flat-boatman, store owner, surveyor, postmaster, lawyer.
Lincolns Military experience included Captain and private, Illinois Militia (1832); Commander-in-Chief (1861-1865).
Lincoln had a Patent #6469 granted May 22, 1849 for device to lift boats over shoals; only U.S. President to own a patent.
At age 23, with no real qualifications and a very limited formal education, Abraham Lincoln ran for his first Illinois political…
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