Tautologist

I as born in a log cabin in Kentucky, to parents who could neither read nor write. I went to school on and off for a total of about a year, but I educated myself by reading borrowed books. When I was nine years old, my mother died. My father—a carpenter and farmer—remarried and moved his family farther west, eventually settling in Illinois.

As a young adult, I worked as a flatboat navigator, storekeeper, soldier, surveyor, and postmaster. At age 25 he was elected to the local government in Springfield, Illinois. Once there, I taught himself law, opened a law practice, and earned the nickname "Honest Abe."