Robert Todd Lincoln

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln’s son

  • John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved his life. Seriously!

  • Served on General Grant’s staff during the Civil War

  • Served as Secretary of War under James Garfield and Chester Arthur

  • United States Minister to Great Britain under Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland

  • There* for the assassination of three presidents: his father, James Garfield, and William McKinley

  • Died nearly four decades before Kennedy’s assassination

*Not like there, there at the time… but there shortly after his father was shot and was there when he died. He’d just arrived in Buffalo when McKinley was shot. But still! Bananas, right?

Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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