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Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln served the United Sates as president from the year 1861 until he was assassinated on April 15, 1865 at age 56. He was married to Mary Todd Lincoln and had four children, Robert Todd Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, and Edward Baker Lincoln. He was the 16th President of the United States and served during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln stood at 6'4" and wore a top hat which would have made him look even taller. He was not an attractive man, in fact as he once said himself in a conversation "If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?"[1] He has and will always be remembered as a great president. He was also the most powerful president since Andrew Jackson.
Earlier Years
[edit]Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, KY to parents Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln. He had two siblings, a sister and a brother, Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. Not long after the family moved another seven miles away from Hodgenville at Knob Creek and lived there for five years while young Abraham Lincoln helped his parents, and began his education. After that the Lincolns moved to Indiana, a state that had merely just been accepted into the Union as a state. It was said that they moved because of slavery issues and there may have been some truth to it considering the family was Baptist.
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When he was only nine years old, his mother Nancy Lincoln died because of milk sickness, which is brought on by drinking milk from cows that had eaten poisonous white snakeroot. His father quickly remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston. [2]
Politics, Presidency and The Civil War
[edit]Abraham Lincoln was a Whig.