Abraham Lincoln
He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809.
His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln married to Mary Todd on November 4, 1842.
Despite coming from poor background Abraham Lincoln was largely self educated.
He became a respected lawyer and went on to become one of the most respected leaders of the United States of all time.
He was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until April 1865.
On January 1, 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The proclamation declared,
"all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States.
On November 19, 1863, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
It would become his most famous speech and one of the most important speeches in American history.
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Lincoln evoked the Declaration of Independence, saying it was up to the living to ensure that the “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” and this Union was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
He was the leader throughout the greatest constitutional crisis, the American Civil War.
He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford's Theater.
He was taken to the Petersen House across the street and laid in a coma for nine hours before dying the next morning.
His body lay in state at the Capitol before a funeral train took him back to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
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