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Peter Cartwright

Peter Cartwright was an American Methodist revivalist and politician in Illinois. Born in Amherst County, now Nelson County, Virginia at the intersection of State Routes 647 and 722 between Findlay Mountain and Purgatory Swamp. A Virginia Historical marker is on Route 56 beyond Lovingston towards Shipman, where it joins Rt 647, Cartwright was a missionary who helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand converts. He settled in Illinois In 1828 and 1832 he was elected to the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. In 1832 he was one of four candidates elected in a field of thirteen. He received more votes than another candidate, a Kentucky store clerk and rail splitter named Abraham Lincoln. He came in eighth. “I was beaten”, Lincoln wrote, “the only time I have even been beaten by the people.” He lost to Abraham Lincoln for a United States Congress seat in 1846. As a Methodist circuit rider, Cartwright rode circuits in Tennessee and Kentucky. His Autobiography made him nationally prominent.

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