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Fido: Abraham Lincoln’s Dog Was the First Presidential Dog to be Photographed

Chris Gampat
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01/07/2017
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Meet Fido: Abraham Lincoln’s beloved dog and the first Presidential dog to be photographed and still have surviving records. Mr. Lincoln loved his dog and, before he became President, he was said to bring the dog with him into town often. The dog would sometimes fetch parcels and even wait outside the barbershop when he got a haircut.

When he became President, Fido got scared by the festivities. You know, just the typical stuff that all of your four legged friends get worried about on the 4th of July and any other time there are fireworks. Because of this, Mr. Lincoln decided that he couldn’t take Fido to D.C. with him.

Because of this, Fido was left in the care of another family who promised to return the dog when Mr. Lincoln’s term was over.

According to Cliff on Flickr:

This floppy-eared rough-coated dog of unknown ancestry lived with Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., for the five years before he became President. Upon his election, Lincoln decided that the dog would not survive the trip to Washington and, despite the objections of his son Tad, left Fido in Illinois. When Lincoln’s body was returned to Springfield, Fido was brought out to meet the mourners.

Unfortunately later on, Fido met his end when a drunken man stabbed the dog while mistaking him for being aggressive.

If you’ve ever read anything about Abraham Lincoln, you’d know that he loved to read and was super kind to animals. When he was a boy, he encountered another youth who broke the back/shell of a turtle just to laugh at it squirm. It’s said that Lincoln became very angry at the boy, even threatening to break his back.

Of course, those were different times.

Image by Cliff. Used with Creative Commons permission

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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