Abraham Lincoln
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Beauty, ugly aren't always same as seen on TV...billionaire. If millions and a cute face were essential to run for office in previous centuries, we would never have had Abraham Lincoln. He couldn't have afforded the price of the entrance ticket. All the makeup in the world would not... In this article: Abraham Lincoln, Democracy, E mail, Liposuction, Michael Bloomberg, Sarah Palin, John F. Kennedy, and New York |
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Inquirer Local and Regional News | 1 day ago
Celebratory year winds down for Lincoln reenactor
...winds down for Lincoln reenactor He was expecting to give the same speech President-elect Abraham Lincoln gave at Independence Hall in 1861. As a Lincoln reenactor, Christian Johnson of Cherry Hill had delivered the 16th president's words...
In this article: George Washington, Jefferson Davis, Legal age, Cherry Hill, Kyw-tv, Civil War, and Battle of Gettysburg
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Courier-Journal | 1 day ago
Exhibit explores Lincoln's love-hate relationship with N.Y.
The exhibition features a scene from Brady s studio with his camera and a ghostly, life-size Lincoln, leaning on the books. The podium Lincoln used at Cooper Union also is here. Button makers, sign makers, portrait artists, print and...
In this article: New York City, Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, Horatio Seymour, and New York Herald
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Lincoln proclaims Thanksgiving
...explain the impulse to proclaim an official day of thanks for a suffering land, in the middle of a Civil War? That's what Abraham Lincoln did. Spurred by magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale to make an annually observed day of thanksgiving a...
In this article: Thanksgiving, Civil War, Continuance, Waste, God, Sarah Josepha Hale, Gettysburg, and Lincoln
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
How a lobbying campaign helped make Thanksgiving a national holiday
...lost. A national Thanksgiving day held by each state on the same day, the last Thursday of November, however, wasn't declared until Abraham Lincoln's presidency. And the idea of issuing such a proclamation wasn't even Lincoln's initially.
In this article: Thanksgiving, God, George Washington, Michael Novak, Sarah Josepha Hale, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, John Quincy Adams, and George W. Bush
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Jones offers brilliant look at Lincoln - and history
...November 21, 2009 Choreographer Bill T. Jones' Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray is ostensibly about Abraham Lincoln. To say that, however, is to limit a piece whose vastness and audacity reach beyond any...
In this article: Appomattox and Afghanistan
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CNN | November 20, 2009
Lincoln letter to schoolboy fetches $60K
...it may concern, I did see and talk with master George Evans Patten, last May, at Springfield, Illinois. Respectfully, A Lincoln." Lincoln historian Harold Holzer said he was amused at the president's stilted response, which reflected his...
In this article: A Lincoln, Civil War, E mail, Harvard University, and U.S.
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AP Online | November 17, 2009
Philly dealer selling letter Lincoln wrote to boy
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A letter President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a boy whose friends didn't believe he had met the commander in chief is being sold in Philadelphia. Lincoln sent the letter from the White House to 8-year-old George Patten...
In this article: Philadelphia, The Raab Collection, White House, and Springfield, Illinois
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Reuters | November 12, 2009
China warns Obama about Dalai Lama, citing Lincoln on slavery
...should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the comments...
In this article: Barack Obama, Dalai Lama, China, Buddhist, Self-determination, Tibet, Beijing, and United States
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.
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. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with 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, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.
- Birth Date:
- February 12, 1809
- Birthplace:
- Hardin County, Kentucky
- Death Date:
- April 15, 1865
- Place of Death:
- Washington, D.C.
- Religion:
- See: Abraham Lincoln and religion
- Nationality:
- American
- Spouse:
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Occupation:
- Lawyer
- Political party:
- Whig (1832-1854), Republican (1854-1864), National Union (1864-1865)
- Vice President:
- Hannibal Hamlin
- Title:
- 16th President of the United States
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