Abraham Lincoln February 12 1809 April 15 1865

Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865 (age 56) He was 6’ 4” (1. 93 m) tall

Abraham Lincoln’s spouse’s name was Mary Todd Lincoln (married in 1842) Abraham Lincolns kids’ names were Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Edward Baker Lincoln.

Mary Todd Lincoln was not well accepted by the women in the Washington, D. C. social circles because they considered her a backwoods hillbilly.

Before he became president, Abe Lincoln ran for the US Senate in 1855.

One son, William Wallace Lincoln, died in the White House. He was 11 years old. President Lincoln was heard to say, “ "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hard to have him die!"

Lincoln was the 16 th President of the United States • Served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. • Led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. • He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln never let the world forget the Civil War. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Presidential Accomplishments He built the Republican Party into a strong party. He rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves to be free

Lincoln avoided hunting and fishing because he had an aversion to killing animals. He was often assumed to be lazy because of this and no doubt he seemed unmanly growing up in an area where people needed fish and game to survive.

Lincoln’s first love was Ann Rutledge. She died of what is believed to be typhoid fever. He then became engaged and disengaged to a woman named Mary Owens. Ultimately, he married Mary Todd.

Interesting Fact: Robert Lincoln, the only son of Abraham Lincoln who would live to raise a family of his own, was almost killed at a train station at the start of the civil war. He slipped from a platform and would have fallen in front of the carriage, but Edwin Boothe grabbed Robert by the collar and pulled him to safety. Later, Edwin’s brother would shoot and kill Abraham Lincoln.

Sadly, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Boothe while attending theater.

Inscription on Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds. . "