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    Abraham Lincoln

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    This article is about the American president. For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln
    (disambiguation).

    Abraham Lincoln

    An 1863 daguerreotype of Lincoln, at the age of 54.


    16th President of the United States
    In office
    March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865

    Vice President

    Hannibal Hamlin (18611865)


    Andrew Johnson (1865)

    Preceded by

    James Buchanan

    Succeeded by

    Andrew Johnson

    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from


    Illinois's 7th district
    In office
    March 4, 1847 March 4, 1849
    Preceded by

    John Henry

    Succeeded by

    Thomas Harris

    Member of the Illinois House of Representatives


    In office
    December 1, 1834 1842
    Personal details

    Born

    February 12, 1809


    Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.
    April 15, 1865 (aged 56)

    Died

    Petersen House,
    Washington D.C., U.S.

    Resting place

    Nationality

    Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery


    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    American
    Whig (18341854)

    Political party

    Republican (18541865)
    National Union (18641865)

    Spouse(s)

    Mary Todd

    Children

    Robert Todd Lincoln

    Edward Baker Lincoln


    Willie Lincoln
    Tad Lincoln

    Profession

    Religion

    Lawyer
    Politician
    See: Abraham Lincoln and religion

    Signature
    Military service
    Service/branch Illinois Militia

    Years of service

    3 months
    (April 21, 1832 July 10, 1832)

    Captain
    (April 21, 1832 May 27, 1832)

    Private
    Rank

    (May 28, 1832 July 10, 1832)


    OBS:. Discharged from his command and

    re-enlisted as a Private.
    Battles/wars

    Black Hawk War

    Abraham Lincoln /ebrhm lkn/ (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was the 16th
    President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
    Lincoln led the United States through its Civil Warits bloodiest war and its greatest moral,
    constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery,
    strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
    i

    Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer in Illinois, a
    Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846,
    where he promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, tariffs, and railroads. He
    had originally agreed not to run for a second term and his opposition to the MexicanAmerican

    War was unpopular among the voters. He returned to Springfield and concentrated on his
    successful law practice throughout central Illinois. He returned to politics in 1854, and was a
    leader in building up the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority. After a series of
    highly publicized debates in 1858, during which Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of
    slavery, he lost the U.S. Senate race to his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas.
    In 1860 Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a
    swing state. With very little support in the slave states, Lincoln swept the North and was elected
    president in 1860. His election prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy
    before he took the office. No compromise or reconciliation was found regarding slavery and
    secession.
    When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the Union after the Confederate attack on Fort
    Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the
    war effort. His primary goal was to reunite the nation. He unilaterally suspended habeas corpus,
    arresting and temporarily detaining thousands holding secessionist or anti-war views in the
    border states without trial, ignoring the Ex parte Merryman ruling that such suspension is
    permitted only to Congress. Lincoln averted potential British intervention by defusing the Trent
    Affair in late 1861. His complex moves toward ending slavery centered on the Emancipation
    Proclamation in 1863, using the Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraging the border states to
    outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United
    States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery. Lincoln closely supervised the war
    effort, especially the selection of top generals, including his most successful general Ulysses S.
    Grant. He made the major decisions on Union war strategy. Lincoln's Navy set up a naval
    blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, helped take control of Kentucky and
    Tennessee, and gained control of the Southern river system using gunboats. Lincoln tried
    repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond; each time a general failed, Lincoln
    substituted another, until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.
    An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln
    reached out to "War Democrats" (who supported the North against the South), and managed his
    own re-election in the 1864 presidential election. As the leader of the moderate faction of the
    Republican party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans who demanded harsher treatment of
    the South, War Democrats who called for more compromise, antiwar Democrats called
    Copperheads who despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists who plotted his death.
    Politically, Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other, by appealing to the
    American people with his powers of oratory, and by carefully planned political patronage.[3] His
    Gettysburg Address of 1863 became an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles
    of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. Lincoln held a moderate
    view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous
    reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. Six days after the surrender of
    Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes
    Booth, a Confederate sympathizer.
    Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars[4] and the public[5] as one of the three
    greatest U.S. presidents

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