Severn teackle wallis biography of abraham lincoln

American politician

Severn Teackle Wallis (September 8, 1816 – April 11, 1894) was an American lawyer and politician.

Lincoln, Abraham.

He was named for Severn Teackle Wallis who as a Member of the Maryland Legislature was imprisoned along with his father for months by order of Abraham.

Biography.

Teackle Wallis, as he was always called, was educated at private schools in Baltimore and then at St. Mary's College on Paca Street, an institution carried on.

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1.

Biography

Severn Teackle Wallis graduated from the secular St. Mary's College in northwest inner Baltimore in 1832, and later studied law with William Wirt, attorney general, and with noted lawyer John Glenn.

In 1837, Wallis was admitted to the bar.

Wallis early developed a taste for literature and contributed to periodicals many articles of literary and historical criticism, also occasional verses. He became a proficient in Spanish literature and history and was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of history of Madrid in 1843.

He may have been an acquaintance of the budding poet and author Edgar Allan Poe, along with his friend, the author and political figure John Pendleton Kennedy.

In 1846, he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark.^[1&