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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
Abram Joseph Ryan

Born: February 5, 1839
Died: April 22, 1886 (aged 47)
Bio: The Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and, less frequently, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy."
Known for:
- Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous (1880)
- Father Ryan's Poems (1879)
- Poems: Patriotic, Religious
- CROWN FOR OUR QUEEN (1882)