Benjamin Platt Thomas (February 22, 1902 – November 29, 1956) was an American historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln.^[1] In 1952 he published a best-selling one volume biography on Lincoln entitled Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Knopf, 1952). Thomas killed himself on November 29, 1956. Three days before, his doctor had confirmed Thomas's suspicion, that since the preceding summer, he had throat cancer.^{[citation needed]}

Books

• "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. (with Michael Burlingame)
• Stanton; The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. New York: Knopf, 1962. (with Harold Melvin Hyman)
• Three Years with Grant. New York: Knopf, 1955. (with Sylvanus Cadwallader)
• Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1952.
• Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950.
• Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers. New Brunswick [N.J.]: Rutgers University Press, 1947.
• Lincoln, 1847-1853, Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1847 to December 31, 1853. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1936.
• Lincoln's New Salem. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934.
• Russo-American Relations, 1815-1867. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930.