Abraham Lincoln
16th President
Born: 1809 Died: 1865 Served: 1861 - 1865

Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin
Political Party Republican
College
Occupation Lawyer
Birthplace Hardin County, Kentucky
Place of Burial Springfield, Illinois

Pop Quiz Facts

* 1860: Elected president on the Republican ticket.
* 1861: Issues executive order to mobilize the Union following attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate batteries.
* 1863: Issues Emancipation Proclamation.
* 1863: Delivers the Gettysburg Address.
* 1864: Elected to a second term, defeating challenger George McClellan.
* 1865: Civil War ends.
* 1865: Shot on April 14 by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, dies the next morning.

Interesting Facts

* At 6 foot, 4 inches, Lincoln was the tallest president.
* Mr. Lincoln's brother, half-brothers, and brothers-in-law fought in the Confederate Army.
* He was the only president to receive a patent, for a device for lifting boats over shoals.
* He was the first president to wear a beard.
* His son, Robert, who was in Washington when his father was killed, was also on the scene when Garfield was shot in 1881 and McKinley assassinated in 1901.
* A poll of historians named Lincoln the nation's greatest president; Washington was second.

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