biography
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| lived:
| (1785–1872)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader, born in Amherst Co, Virginia, USA. In 1790 he moved with his family to frontier Logan Co, Kentucky, and converted to Methodism at age 16. As a travelling preacher (1803–24), he denounced drinking, gambling, and rival sects on the circuits in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana. A committed opponent of slavery, he was twice elected to the Illinois legislature, and in 1846 he lost the election to the US House of Representatives to Abraham Lincoln. His account of frontier religious life, The Backwoods Preacher, appeared in 1869. |
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