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Benjamin P. Thomas

1902 – 1956

American historian

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Lived 1902 – 1956 (aged 54). Benjamin P. Thomas was an American historian.

Benjamin Platt Thomas (February 22, 1902 – November 29, 1956) was an American historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. In 1952 he published a best-selling one volume biography on Lincoln entitled Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Knopf, 1952). Thomas killed himself on November 29, 1956.

Books "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. (with Michael Burlingame) Stanton; The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. New York: Knopf, 1962. (with Harold Melvin Hyman) Three Years with Grant. New York: Knopf, 1955. (with Sylvanus Cadwallader) Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1952. Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950. Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers. New Brunswick [N.J.]: Rutgers University Press, 1947. Lincoln, 1847-1853, Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1847 to December 31, 1853. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1936. Lincoln's New Salem. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934. Russo-American Relations, 1815-1867. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930.

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Who was Benjamin P. Thomas?

American historian (1902–1956)

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Benjamin P. Thomas was born on 22 February 1902.

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Benjamin P. Thomas died on 29 November 1956.

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Benjamin P. Thomas was a historian.

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Benjamin P. Thomas was American.

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