When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

Thomas “Tad” Lincoln was just 8 years old when he arrived in Washington, D.C., to live at the White House after his father was sworn into office in March 1861. The youngest of four sons born ...

Each year a pair of turkeys are brought to the White House for the president to pardon—to be spared from a deeply tanned appearance on the Executive dining room table. What most don’t know is ...

Brian Ellison, of Reedy, poses with the chest of drawers he is trying to connect to Tad Lincoln, a son of President Abraham Lincoln. He acquired the piece about nine years ago at an auction where ...

An exhibit that combines touch with sight and sound to tell the story of the 16th U.S. president has opened at Abraham ...

The White House's definitive history of the presidential turkey pardon says Abe Lincoln's son, Tad, may have started the tradition of sparing a bird every year. In 1863, then-11-year-old Tad ...

Lincoln had granted clemency to a turkey named Jack belonging to his son Tad Lincoln, that had originally been slated to be gobbled up at the family's Christmas dinner in 1863. But the annual ...

To hear him tell it, Willie and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln were harmless little mischief-makers. Yet, others found their antics less than amusing. Indeed, William Herndon—the statesman’s own law ...