Robert Todd Lincoln Biography

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NAME: Robert Todd Lincoln
OCCUPATION: Lawyer, Political Leader
BIRTH DATE: August 01, 1843
DEATH DATE: June 26, 1926
EDUCATION: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, University of Chicago
PLACE OF BIRTH: Springfield, Illinois
PLACE OF DEATH: Manchester, Vermont
Nickname: Prince of Rails

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Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and secretary of war best known as the first-born son of President Abraham Lincoln.

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He later refused to attend presidential functions.

Though Lincoln lived in Chicago for most of his adult life, he died on June 26, 1926, at Hildene, his Manchester, Vermont, summer retreat. His physician stated that Lincoln had died from a "cerebral hemorrhage induced by arteriosclerosis." Unlike the rest of his immediate family, who were buried in the family plot in Illinois, Lincoln was buried in Arlington Cemetery in Virginia. His wife decided his burial site,

writing that she felt her husband "was a personage, made his own history, independently (underlined 5 times) of his great father, and should have his own place 'in the sun.'"