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Abraham Lincoln - Bloomington Convention

Time: Friday May 30, 1856

Place: Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.

Details: As the 1856 elections approached, Lincoln joined the Republicans and attended the Bloomington Convention, which formally established the Illinois Republican Party. The convention platform endorsed Congress's right to regulate slavery in the territories and backed the admission of Kansas as a free state.

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