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Abraham Lincoln was a champion wrestler in his youth. Honest Abe knew how to pin before he knew how to politic.

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Lincoln was famously strong and is credited in local lore with an impressive wrestling record in Illinois. The details are partly folkloric, but his reputation as a capable wrestler was well-known among contemporaries.

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