At every turn in his life, Abraham Lincoln faced ethical challenges. They were evident in his childhood and youth, influenced his quest for a career, prompted him to become a lawyer, shaped his practice of law, inspired him to enter politics, and drove him to seek the presidency. They played a big part in his courtships, marriage, and family life. Most significantly, ethical concerns impelled him, as president, to seek solutions to slavery issues that haunted him and the nation and to persevere in an unimaginably costly war. In the platform address, a series of vignettes will illuminate the challenges he faced as president. lt;brgt;lt;brgt;In 2001, Myron Marty and his wife Shirley moved to Monticello, a town in the Land of Lincoln named for Thomas Jefferson--an appropriate place for someone who taught courses at Drake University centered on Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Since then, he has reviewed at least thirty Lincoln books, twenty of them in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and published a chapter in Lincoln’s America (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008). Frank Lloyd Wright has displaced Jefferson in Marty's work: with Shirley Marty he is coauthor of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, and in April Northern Illinois University Press will publish his Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright. After serving successively as Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Drake from 1984 until his retirement, he is now the Ann G. and Sigurd E. Anderson University Professor Emeritus. His graduate degrees are from Washington University and Saint Louis University.