Abraham Lincoln
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born
February 12, 1809
died
April 15, 1865
gender
male
place of birth
Hardin County, Kentucky, The United States
genre
Nonfiction, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs
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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
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"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
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