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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 305 ticket. He returned to Chicago, and in the spring of 1889 he was appointed minister to Great Britain. He was succeeded in June, 1893, by Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, as ambassador, and resumed his law practice in Chicago. For several years Mr. Lincoln s winter residence has been in Washington, D. C., and his summer home in Manchester, Ver mont.