Robert Smith was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, nephew of Jeremiah Smith and Samuel Smith of New Hampshire. Smith founded the Minneapolis Milling Company in 1856, which eventually became General
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Dou
Robert Smith (Illinois politician)
…Cemetery. Smith attended an event in Greenville, Illinois in 1858 in which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches around the time of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. United States Congress. "Robert Smith (id: S000604)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress…
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A U.S. post stamp, issued in 1958, commemorating the Lincoln and Douglas debates