History tells that a man failed in business and fell into bankruptcy in 1831. He was defeated for the legislature in 1832. His fiancée died in 1835. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836. He was defeated in the elections of 1836 and in the parliamentary elections of 1843, 1846, 1848 and 1855. He was not successful in his aspiration to the Vice Presidency of 1856, and in 1858 was defeated in the elections for the Senate.
This stubborn man was Abraham Lincoln, elected president of the United States in 1860.
