feb 9, 1911 - Signs Act (36 Stat 898) creating a commission to a monument or memoral to Abraham Lincoln including President Taft, Senator Shelby Cullom, House Speaker Joseph Cannon, Senator George Peabody Wetmore, Rep. Samuel Walker McCall, Senator Hernando Money, and future House Speaker Champ Clark
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