[PW] Inexperienced people in occupations who then excel at them

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On 4/5/07, Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >From: "Michael J. Lowrey" <orangemike at gmail.com>
> >> Abraham Lincoln
> >
> >???? In what was he inexperienced?
>
> Being president?  IIRC, he had never held elected office before 1861.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. He had been a state legislator, and a member of
the U.S. Congress who could have been re-elected, but stepped aside
for the next Whig in the rotation (as was local custom). He was an
experienced lawyer. He even held a patent. (There's a lot of mythology
about this so-called "raw backwoodsman," as our fellow womb at t Snopes
can testify.)

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
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