Mentor Graham

{{short description|Teacher best known for tutoring Abraham Lincoln}}

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| name = Mentor Graham

| image = Mentor Graham photograph printed from original negatives (IA lincolnianahisto00mese cropped).jpg

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| caption = William Mentor Graham photograph, date unknown

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| birth_date = 1800

| birth_place = Greensburg, Kentucky

| death_date = 1886

| death_place = Blunt, South Dakota

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| known_for = Tutoring Abraham Lincoln

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| occupation = Teacher

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William Mentor Graham (1800–1886) was an American teacher best known for tutoring Abraham Lincoln and giving him his higher education during the future President's time in New Salem, Illinois.

Graham was born near Greensburg, Kentucky. He died in 1886 in Blunt, Dakota Territory.{{cite book |last1=Duncan |first1=Kunigunde |last2=Nickols |first2=D. F. |date=1944 |title=Mentor Graham: the man who taught Lincoln |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |hdl=2027/mdp.39076005078642 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39076005078642}}