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Abraham Lincoln |
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President Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
begins serving as the 16th President from 1861 until
assassinated in 1865.
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Vice Pres. |
Lincoln's
first Vice President was Hannibal Hamlin.
Hamlin also served as U.S. Rep., U.S. Senator, and Governor of
Maine.
Hamlin was born in Paris, Oxford County,
Maine on August 27,
1809.
He died in Bangor, Penobscot County,
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First Lady |
Mary
(Todd) Lincoln was Abraham's wife. They had 4 children however
only one lived to maturity. |
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Lincoln was a
Republican from
Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President.
Lincoln had more concern over the preservation of the Union than
in ending slavery. [Such go the spoils of war.]
He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation on January 23, 1863
that declared slaves, within the Confederacy, free for ever.
He built the Republican Party into a strong national
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"Intelligence,
patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has
never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to
adjust in the best way all our present difficulty."
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address.
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Quotes |
"In your hands, my
dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the
momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail
you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the
government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve,
protect and defend it." - President Abraham Lincoln, warning the
southern states.
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." -
President Abraham Lincoln.
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" -
President Abraham Lincoln.
". . . 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." -
President Abraham Lincoln, dedication of the Military cemetery
at Gettysburg. |
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1865 |
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President Abraham Lincoln
begins his second term as President of the United States.
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Vice |
Lincoln's
second Vice President was Andrew Johnson. |
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Lincoln was a
Republican from
Illinois.
Lincoln was the first
President to be assassinated.
Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was within the vicinities of
three assassinations, those of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.
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Inaug. Addr. |
". . . 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." - President Abraham Lincoln,
dedication of the Military cemetery at Gettysburg.
"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, to
care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow
and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
- President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address. |
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"You can fool
some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some
of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the
time."
- President Abraham Lincoln. |
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Birth Death |
Abraham Lincoln was
born in a log cabin on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin
County, Kentucky
President
Abraham Lincoln is fatally shot on April 14, 1865 by actor John Wilkes
Booth at the Ford Theater in
Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next morning on April
15th, 1865. |
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G Washington
- J Adams -
T
Jefferson - J Madison -
J Monroe -
J Q
Adams - A Jackson -
- M Van Buren -
W
H Harrison - J Tyler -
J Polk -
Z Taylor -
M Fillmore -
F Pierce
- J Buchanan -
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Lincoln - A Johnson -
- U S Grant -
R B Hayes
- J Garfield -
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Arthur - G Cleveland -
B Harrison -
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T Roosevelt -
- W Taft
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W Harding
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H Truman -
D D Eisenhower
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R Nixon -
G Ford -
J Carter -
R Reagan -
G H W Bush
- B Clinton -
G W Bush
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TimeLine of the Presidency -
Inauguration Speeches
- Party Platforms
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The Early Presidents
- Distinctions of the
Presidencies
Black
American Patriots -
President's Day -
Rhymes about the
Founding Fathers
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