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Benjamin Platt Thomas (February 22, 1902 – November 29, 1956) was an American historian and biographer of
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War ...
.Paul M. Angle."Benjamin Platt Thomas, 1902-1956" ''Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society'', Spring, 1957 In 1952 he published a best-selling one volume biography on Lincoln entitled ''Abraham Lincoln: A Biography'' (Knopf, 1952). Thomas killed himself on November 29, 1956.


Books

* ''"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. (with Michael Burlingame) * ''Stanton; The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War''. New York: Knopf, 1962. (with Harold Melvin Hyman) * ''Three Years with Grant''. New York: Knopf, 1955. (with Sylvanus Cadwallader) * ''Abraham Lincoln: A Biography''. New York: Knopf, 1952. * '' Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom.'' New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950. * ''Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers''. New Brunswick .J. Rutgers University Press, 1947. * ''Lincoln, 1847-1853, Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1847 to December 31, 1853''. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1936. * ''Lincoln's New Salem''. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934. * ''Russo-American Relations, 1815-1867''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930.


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* 1902 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Place of birth missing 1956 suicides 20th-century American male writers Suicides in the United States {{US-historian-stub