Sixteenth President of the United States…

Sixteenth President of the United States, born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky in 1809. A largely self-taught lawyer from Illinois, he won the 1860 election as a Republican opposed to the spread of slavery. He led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address. Days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington in 1865.

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