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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. Less than two years after being uprooted, Lincoln’s mother died on October 5, 1818. The next day, the president’s casket lay in state at the Capitol, where roughly 25,000 visitors paid their last respects. Voters re-elected Lincoln to the Illinois General Assembly in 1838 and 1840. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
No President in history had ever exerted so much executive authority, but he did so not for personal power but in order to preserve the Union. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. Rather than face a future in which black people might become free citizens, much of the white South supported secession.
His election was the signal for sevensouthernslavestates to declaretheirsecession from the Union and form the Confederacy. On December 8, 1863, Lincoln announced his plan for the reunification of the nation, known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. After working as a lawyer, Lincoln entered politics, serving as a U.S.
Congressman and eventually as the 16th President of the United States. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1809
Hodgenville - Also known as
- Honest Abe
- Abe Lincoln
- The Buffoon
- Caesar
- Father Abraham
- The Flatboat Man
- The Grand Wrestler
- The Great Emancipator
- The Illinois Baboon
- The Jester
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- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Nationality
- Profession
- Employment
- President
(1861/03/04 - 1865/04/15) - President, Federal government of the United States
(1861/03/04 - 1865/04/15)
- President
- Lived in
- Kentucky
- Springfield
- Illinois
- Died
- Apr 15, 1865
Penn Quarter - Resting place
- Oak Ridge Cemetery
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Overview
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to become one of the most well-known figures in American History.
If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Famous Quotes:
- A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
- We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it.
Events rapidly spiraled toward war when South Carolina demanded that federal soldiers evacuate its military installation at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Despite his brief presidency, Lincoln remains an important figure in American history and continues to be widely revered for his leadership, his courage, and his commitment to American ideals.
Accomplishments and Milestones
- 1809, February 12 — Abraham Lincoln was born.
- 1816, December — The Lincoln Family moved to Indiana.
- 1818, October 5 — His mother, Nancy Hanks, passed away.
- 1819, December 2 — Lincoln’s father remarried Sarah Bush Johnston.
- 1830, March — He relocated with his family to Illinois.
- 1831, July — Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois, separating from his family.
- 1832, April–June — Served as a militia captain during the Black Hawk War.
- 1832, August 6 — Lost his first election bid for the Illinois General Assembly.
- 1834, August 6 — Lincoln was elected to the Illinois General Assembly at age 24.
- 1837, March 1 — He was admitted to the Illinois bar.
- 1837, March 15 — Lincoln moved to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice.
- 1842, November 4 — He married Mary Todd.
- 1846, August 3 — Lincoln was elected to the U.S.
Congress as a Whig from Illinois.
- 1849, March 31 — Completed his term in Congress and resumed practicing law.
- 1854, November 7 — He was elected to the Illinois General Assembly.
- 1858, June 16 — Delivered the “House Divided” speech.
- 1858, August–October — Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates.
- 1858, November 2 — Lost the Senate race to Stephen Douglas.
- 1860, May 18 — He received the Republican nomination for President.
- 1860, November 6 — Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States.
- 1861, March 4 — He was inaugurated as President.
- 1861, April 15 — Lincoln called for a militia of 75,000 soldiers.
- 1862, April 16 — He signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
- 1862, September 22 — Issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1863, January 1 — Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1863, November 19 — Delivered the Gettysburg Address.
- 1864, November 8 — He was reelected President.
- 1865, March 4 — Delivered his second inaugural address.
- 1865, April 14 — Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater.
- 1865, April 15 — He died from his injuries at 7:22 a.m.
- 1865, May 4 — Lincoln was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Springfield, Illinois.
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... Still active in politics, voters elected Lincoln to serve in the Illinois General Assembly in 1834, and they re-elected him in 1836. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, just as the Civil War was coming to an end and the country was beginning to heal from the wounds of war.