First Republican Governor of Illinois inaugurated

William H. Bissell, a partially paralyzed war hero who had served in the Mexican War, was inaugurated as the first Republican governor of Illinois. (By Matthew Pinsker)
Source Citation
"The Lincoln Log," January 12, 1857, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, http://www.thelincolnlog.org/view/1857/1/12.
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