Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809- April 15, 1865 (age56)

He was 6’4” (1.93 m) tall

Abraham Lincoln’s spouse’s name was Mary Todd Lincoln (married in1842)

Abraham Lincolns kids’ names were Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Edward Baker

Lincoln.

Mary Todd Lincoln was not well accepted by the women in the Washington, D. C. social circles because they considered her a backwoods hillbilly.

Before he became president, Abe Lincoln

ran for the US Senate in 1855.

One son, William Wallace Lincoln, died in the White House. He was 11 years old.

President Lincoln was heard to say, “ "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hard to have him die!"

Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States

• Served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

• Led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its

greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.

• He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal

government, and modernized the economy.

In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln never let the world forget the Civil War. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

He built the Republican Party into a strong party.

He rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.

On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves to be free

Presidential Accomplishments

Lincoln avoided hunting and fishing because he had an aversion to killing animals. He was often assumed to be lazy because of

this and no doubt he seemed unmanly growing up in an area where people needed fish and game to survive.

Lincoln’s first love was Ann Rutledge. She died of what is believed to be typhoid fever.

He then became engaged and disengaged to a woman named Mary Owens.

Ultimately, he married Mary Todd.

Robert Lincoln, the only son of Abraham Lincoln who would live to raise a family of his own, was almost killed at a train station at the start of the civil war. He slipped from a platform and would have fallen in front of the carriage, but Edwin Boothe grabbed Robert by the collar and pulled him to safety. Later, Edwin’s brother would shoot and kill Abraham Lincoln.

Interesting Fact:

Sadly, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Boothe while attending the theater.

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the

nation's wounds.... "

Inscription on Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Lincoln believed the Civil War to be necessary because secession was illegal. Four slave states remained in the Union.

Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying a knife, fearing he would use it on himself.

Interesting Fact:

Lincoln believed that women should have the right to vote!

Cool Fact:

Three of Lincoln’s sons died before adulthood. Abraham Lincoln has no confirmed living descendants. The last one, a great-grandson, died in 1985.

Abraham Lincoln kept his important documents inside his hat.

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