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Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, served as Secretary of War under two presidents. Was he viewed as qualified because he served on Ulysses S. Grant's staff for a few weeks at the end of the Civil War? Or was military service not seen as particularly important for the position?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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