ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Abraham Lincon (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865) He was the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led the country through its greatest international crisis, the American Civil war, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Assasinated as the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln had been the first Republican elected to the presidency, before precidency, he was a lawyer , an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the senate.He had 4 children they were called Robert Todd Lincoln, Tomas Tad Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln and Edward Baker Lincoln and his wife was named Mary Todd Lincoln. He had two sibilings Sara Lincoln and Tomas Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was named after his Grandfather. Lincoln used his hat for stashing all his Invitations bills and letters.When he died he was at the Ford theater watching " My American Cousin"; the man who killed him at the Ford theater was called John Wilkes booth, he Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth thearial family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a popular actor, well known in both the Northern United States and the South.

He kill Abraham Lincoln because he strongly opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves.

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