sentences:  Black was also an author best known for ghostwriting a biography of Abraham Lincoln for his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon titled "The Life of Abraham Lincoln; from his Birth to his Inauguration as President" published in 1872.Because of his reformist zeal, Black was chosen to run on the ticket of Robert E. Pattison in 1882.He served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887.