Abraham Lincoln was in politics.
Abraham Lincoln . Reentering politics in 1854 , he became a leader in building the new Republican Party , which had a statewide majority in Illinois . The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly , the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois . The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which , along with the Senate , composes the legislature of the United States .