Scope and Contents Lawyer, politician, and sixteenth president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln began his political career when he ran for the Illinois Assembly in 1832. In 1846 was elected to the State Legislature. He declared in 1854 his hatred of slavery because of its monstrous injustice and it deprived the American Republic of being an example to the world. This was the year he also first ran for United States Senator from Illinois. Though he lost he cobbled together what was left of the Wig...