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The President of the United States 16.

Tenure.

March 4, 1861 - 15 April 1865Vice President Hannibal Hamlin (1861 - 1865) ; Andrew Johnson (March - April 1865 )

Abraham Lincoln (born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809 - died in Washington, DC, 15 April 1865 at the age of 56 years) is the President of the United States-16, served from March 4, 1861 until his assassination occurred. He led the nation out of the American Civil War, maintaining national unity, and abolish slavery. However, when the war was nearing its end, he became the first U.S. president who was assassinated. Prior to his inauguration in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln is a lawyer, member of the Illinois legislature, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and twice failed in the Senate election.

As abolitionists, Lincoln won the U.S. presidential nomination of the Republican Party in 1860 and was subsequently elected president. His reign was marked by the defeat of the Confederate States of America State, pro-slavery, the American Civil War.
He issued a decree ordering the abolition of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and added a thirteenth article in the U.S. Constitution in 1865.
Lincoln closely supervise the war, including the selection of warlords such as Ulysses S. Grant. Historians conclude that Lincoln organize factions within the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to work together. Lincoln managed to ease tensions with the UK following the scandal of Trent in 1861.
Under his leadership the North succeeded in occupying the South of the early war. Lincoln then was re-elected U.S. president in 1864.
The opponents of the war criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise attitude towards slavery. Instead, the conservatives of the Radical Republican faction, a faction of pro abolition of slavery Republican Party, criticized Lincoln for his slow the abolition of slavery.
Although hampered by various obstacles, Lincoln managed to unify public opinion through rhetoric and speeches; speech is the best Gettysburg Address.
Nearing the end of the war, Lincoln as moderate to reconstruction, which crave the reunification of the nation through a policy of reconciliation is soft. His successor, Andrew Johnson, also desired reunification whites, but failed to defend the rights of the newly freed slaves.
Lincoln was rated as the greatest U.S. presidents throughout American history.

Childhood.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a small shack in Kentucky, February 12, 1809. His parents were poor and uneducated. Lincoln himself only get education for about a year, but in the short time he was able to read, write and count. when he grew up he tried hard to increase their knowledge. It uses the best of all books that can be read, he had become a lawyer at the age of 28 years.

Before becoming president.

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln worked in various areas of law. She has worked as splitting wood fence, into the army, became a sailor on the river boats, clerks, taking care of the tavern, head post office, and eventually became a lawyer.
He vigorously defended the rights of African slaves. During his tenure, there were many slaves in the South, and he wanted the slaves freed. People do not agree with the plan, forming the Union of South and an army to fight against the forces of North Lincoln on the North-South war.
His army won the battle.
His first step into the political field occurred in 1832 when he was 23 years old . When he sought to be elected as member of Legislative Council the state of
Illinois , in the west-central part of America. But he lost the election , two years later he tried again and won . After that , he was elected three times in a row after that .

Presidency.

In 1847, when he was 38 years old, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Abraham Lincoln became famous throughout the country as a political person, due to his debate with Stephen A. Senator Douglas in the U.S. election campaign in 1858. Although he lost the election of senators, Republicans chose a presidential candidate in the 1860 election.
When the United States nearly split over the issue of slavery.
6 November 1860, Lincoln became President of the United States 16 and a month later, the American Civil War between the states in the North and the states in the South broke. Although he hated war, President Lincoln accepted it as the only way to save the unity of the country.
By the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Liberation that change lives of many people in America. The proclamation declared all serf in the states or regions that states against the United States will be free to begin January 1, 1863. Proclamation that sparked the spirit of all those who fight for freedom, and to drive towards the abolition of slavery throughout the United States.
President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in 1864, in the midst of the military victories of the United States towards the end of the Civil War.
In the peace plan of President Abraham Lincoln is flexible and generous. He invites those southern rebel to lay down arms and return to the United States. The spirit becomes clear guidelines similar to the spirit of the second inaugural address. This sentence is engraved on one wall of the Lincoln memorial (Lincoln Memorial) in Washington DC, which reads;
"With courage and truth according to the word of God, let us strive to finish our task now, is to heal the wounds of the nation. "
President Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre, Washington, USA, on 14 April 1865 and died next day on 15 April 1865 at the age of 56 years. The killer, John Wilkes Booth was a showman who has a mental disorder, it is also one of the supporters who opposed the Confederacy Confederate army handed to the government after the end of the civil war.
President Lincoln is buried in Springfield, United States of America and the world and remembered as a fighter for democracy as his services.
Strange similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
* Facts about Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in
1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
* Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
* Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives.
* Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
* Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
* Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.
* Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
* Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson,
who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
* Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by
Ford.
* Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran And hid in a theater.
* Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
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