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Joe Biden’s paternal great-great grandfather got a pardon from Abraham Lincoln 160 years ago, new records reveal
NY Post ^ | February 19, 2024 | Ryan King

Posted on 02/20/2024 3:14:53 PM PST by Twotone

Abraham Lincoln didn’t just free the slaves and preserve the Union.

America’s 16th (and arguably greatest-ever) president also pardoned the current chief executive’s paternal great-great-grandfather after he was sentenced to hard labor at a military prison, newly unearthed documents show.

President Biden’s ancestor, Moses Robinette, was put in the dock after he came to blows with one John Alexander, a fellow civilian employee of the Union Army, on March 21, 1864, according to records found by the Washington Post.

Alexander, a brigade wagon master, was left bloodied by wounds that came from Robinette’s pocket knife and the presidential forebear was hauled away by camp watchmen.

Robinette, whose legacy lives on in the 46th president’s middle name, had been hired by the Army to work as a veterinary surgeon sometime in 1862 or 1863, according to the documents which were dug up at the National Archives in Washington.

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1 posted on 02/20/2024 3:14:53 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone
America’s 16th (and arguably greatest-ever) president

Nope. No slight to Lincoln but, no one holds a candle to George Washington.

2 posted on 02/20/2024 3:16:13 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Twotone

That crime family has been at it for quiet a while


3 posted on 02/20/2024 3:19:01 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: frogjerk

Agreed. George Washington will always be number one.


4 posted on 02/20/2024 3:25:05 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Biden is a #2.


5 posted on 02/20/2024 3:28:01 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: frogjerk

Nope. No slight to Lincoln but, no one holds a candle to George Washington.

I 100% agree. Washington has my vote.


6 posted on 02/20/2024 3:28:28 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: NWFree

Maybe “ Homer J. Simpson “ will produce glowing New York Times articles celebrating ol’ “ honest Abe’s “ pardon.


7 posted on 02/20/2024 3:32:15 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: HighSierra5

Agreed.


8 posted on 02/20/2024 3:32:17 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Twotone

Alexander punched Robinette out for sniffing little girls, and harassing them.


9 posted on 02/20/2024 3:35:02 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Twotone

Horse thief? Poker cheat? Brothel owner?


10 posted on 02/20/2024 3:35:30 PM PST by albie
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To: NWFree

I don’t think defending yourself when attacked by a big teamster is much of a crime. Possibly both men had been drinking. Many officers would have told them to break it up and go home, and forget about the whole thing. During a war, with a bunch of young men far from home, these sorts of things can happen.


11 posted on 02/20/2024 3:37:16 PM PST by proxy_user (W)
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To: albie

Yes


12 posted on 02/20/2024 3:38:11 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: Twotone

John Alexander was the nineteenth century’s Corn Pop.


13 posted on 02/20/2024 3:38:44 PM PST by cockroach_magoo (cockroach_magoo did not formally deprogram himself.)
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To: frogjerk
No slight to Lincoln but, no one holds a candle to George Washington.

Monroe comes close, but you're right of course.

It was a very different time, when men of intellect were also men of honor, along with military leaders who entered politics. Today politicians are generally without honor, which is why the two best presidents in my lifetime, Reagan and Trump, were only politicians by necessity rather than by career.

14 posted on 02/20/2024 3:45:32 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Twotone

Apparently, taking it to the back of the barn is in the genes.


15 posted on 02/20/2024 4:00:03 PM PST by ryderann
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To: frogjerk

Crime and slime go deep with the Bidens. Fits.


16 posted on 02/20/2024 4:01:03 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: EvilCapitalist

Thank you. Then I invite you to join me in my lonely crusade to get people to stop calling the holiday named in federal law as “George Washington’s Birthday” by a different name

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/presidents-day-myth-180954285/


17 posted on 02/20/2024 4:05:46 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Twotone

So Bidens have always been thugs.


18 posted on 02/20/2024 4:28:47 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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Well, that act alone makes Lincoln the “worst president ever” and a “tyrant” 🥸


19 posted on 02/20/2024 4:44:09 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Twotone

Lincoln is in the top 7., any of my 7 are #1a. Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln, Coolidge, Reagan and Trump. #1b is Teddy Roosevelt, Grant, Eisenhower and JFK.


20 posted on 02/20/2024 4:51:05 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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