# Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois Author: Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore), 1829-1914 Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23097 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fifty+Years+of+Public+Service+Personal+Recollections+of+Shelby+M.+Cullom%2C+Senior+United+Cullom&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary CONTENTS CHAPTER I Birth to Admission to the Bar, 1829 to 1855 II Service as City Attorney at Springfield, 1855 and 1856 III Election to the Illinois Legislature: Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1856 to 1858 IV Other Distinguished Characters of that Day, 1858 and 1859 V Nomination of Lincoln and Douglas for the Presidency, 1859 and 1860 VI Speaker of the Illinois Legislature, and a Member of Congress, 1860 to 1865 VII Lincoln, 1860 to 1864 VIII Notables in the Thirty-ninth Congress, 1864 to 1870 IX The Impeachment of President Johnson X Speaker of the Legislature, and Governor, 1871 to 1883 XI Grant XII General John A. Logan XIII General John M. Palmer XIV Governor Richard J. Oglesby XV Senatori... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter VIII: "La Fayette", Indiana, kept as a contemporary](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-of-public-service-personal-recollections-of-shelby-c5a67a32/chapters/35/index.md)