Sentences with phrase «lincoln as a congressman»

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It's just a shame that everyone else — a showboating Tommy Lee Jones as progressive Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Sally Field as Lincoln's hysterical wife Mary, Joseph Gordon - Levitt as their eldest son Robert — seem like they're part of the Lincoln exhibit at Disneyland.

And if you can «induce» a dozen or so racist congressmen to sign the monumental and slavery - ending 13th Amendment, as «Honest» Abe Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) did at the end of the Civil War, why can't we get a budget deal today?

He was seen last year in «Straw Dogs» and «Cowboys & Aliens,» and on the way, he's got a small role in the troubled «G.I. Joe: Retaliation,» as well a more substantial part, as congressman Wells Hutchins, a key ally of the title character, in Steven Spielberg «s «Lincoln» — a job that should let him make a break from the thugs and villains he usually plays.

Lincoln came to the presidency as a former state legislator and U.S. congressman, so he understood the kind of wheeling and dealing required to get a bill enacted.

He served as governor and military governor of Tennessee and United States congressman, senator, and vice president, becoming President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.»