...was on March 3rd, 1865, when by joint resolution, the Congress of the United States resolved that: "Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of dLability resulting from wounds or sicknesses incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for...

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...Lincoln, the first veterans preference law was passed. Identified as 13 Stat. 571, it provided that : "Persons honorably discharged from the military or...incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices, provided they be found to possess the business capacity necessary for...

...incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices, provided they be found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices." Eleven years later, on August 15, 1876, the first law granting preference to reduction-in-force...

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...themselves in the job market while their contemporaries answered their country' call and shouldered arms. 36 wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices, provided they be fouud to possess the business capacity necessary for...