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One Term and "Retirement":
Representative Lincoln's views on the Mexican War were well within the Whig party mainstream. They did not go over well in expansionist-minded central Illinois. Lincoln did not run for reelection in 1848. Some charged that he dared not run due to his unpopular stand against the war. Lincoln himself declared that the decision not to run was based on an agreement among party leaders to rotate the occupancy of Illinois' one Whig congressional seat. |