Leonard Swett

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Leonard Swett (1825-1889) was a civil and criminal lawyer who advised and assisted Abraham Lincoln throughout the president's political career.

Early life

Swett was born in 1825 near Turner, Maine and educated at North Yarmouth Academy and Colby College, although he did not earn a degree.^[1] Swett read law in Portland, Maine and enlisted in the army to serve in the Mexican-American War. After the war, he settled in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1865, he settled in Chicago.

Swett and Ward Hill Lamon, along with another Lincoln associate, David Davis, helped engineer Lincoln's nomination at the 1860 Republican National Convention, according to the 1949 doctoral thesis Ward Hill Lamon: Lincoln's Particular Friend, written by Lavern Marshall Hamand at the Graduate College of the University of Illinois.

He was appointed by Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher to negotiate disputed claims to New Almaden Quicksilver Mine.^[2]

Swett is portrayed by the actor Ryan Honey in the 2012 movie Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

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Name	Swett, Leonard
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Short description	American lawyer
Date of birth	1825
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Date of death	1889
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