Dennis Boggs of Nashville, Tennessee travels all over the nation bringing Abraham Lincoln's story to life for audiences of all ages. With his extensive theatrical background, Mr. Boggs was first introduced to playing the role of President Lincoln for a production group at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in his hometown of Nashville.Afterwards, he felt a deep need for continuing to research and study this historical figure. After reading countless books and papers, he gained an even deeper passion of further portraying the 16th President, and now as a fulltime career for over a decade, he has been presenting Abraham Lincoln through his program entitled "Meet Mr. Lincoln." Dennis Boggs is a Lincoln Presenter from Nashville, Tennessee, who travels from coast to coast presenting President Lincoln for schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums, Chautauqua events, motivational speaking programs, civil war roundtables, civic groups, churches, as well as many other special events. His credits include documentaries for the History Channel, Being Lincoln and Looking for Lincoln, as well as being highly featured on several PBS (Public Broadcasting System) programming stations. He has appeared on the world famous stage of the Grand Ole Opry and has also presented many programs for the U.S. National Park Services including the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Flat Rock, North Carolina),The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site (Plains, Georgia), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (Middlesboro, Kentucky), The Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus (Columbus, Georgia), and the Andersonville National Historic Site (Andersonville, Georgia).
Mr. Boggs has presented President Lincoln at numerous living history events and national Civil War reenactments including The 140th Anniversary of the Reenactment of the Battle of Franklin (Franklin, Tennessee) and The 145th Anniversary of the Reenactment of the Battle of Chickamauga (Chickamauga, Georgia), with the latter being attended by Vice-President Dick Cheney as the keynote speaker. He has presented programs for the Washington, D.C. Historical Society and was also awarded "First Place" in The National Abraham Lincoln Look Alike & Oratorical Competition (Decatur, Illinois), and Mr. Boggs has even had the honor and privilege of presenting President Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. For more information regarding Dennis Boggs and his "Meet Mr. Lincoln" program, please contact him at (615) 874-8028 or (615) 943-7742.
