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=Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"=

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 he was the second child of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, he lived in a one room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky.

In 1846 he was elected to the House of Representatives, he was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation. He left politics to pursue a career as a lawyer in 1854 he returned to politics again this time in opposition of the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act.

He became the 16th president elected in 1860, shortly after being sworn into office South Carolina seceded from the union.

on January 1, 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all enslaved persons.

On November 19, 1863 he gave the Gettysburg Address it was exactly 272 words long, and lasted three minutes in the spech he said " This country was not born in 1789 in was born in 1776"

On April 15, 1865 John Wilkes Booth came up behind him in the Ford theatre and shot him in the back of the head while he was watching the play Our American Cousin, Lincoln died early the next morning.