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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 · politician · postmaster · lawyer · statesperson · farmer · military officer · writer · also Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, President Lincoln, Abe Lincoln, Uncle Abe, A. Lincoln
Born 12 February 1809 · Died 15 April 1865 · Q91
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The subject of the present one [canto] is an insane man. His name is Matthew Gentry. He is three years older than I, and when we were boys we went to school together. He was rather a bright lad, and the son of the rich man of our very poor neighbourhood. At the age of nineteen he unaccountably became furiously mad, from which condition he gradually settled down into harmless insanity.
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“The subject of the present one [canto] is an insane man. His name is Matthew Gentry. He is three years older than I, and when we were boys we went to school together. He was rather a bright lad, and the son of the rich man of our very poor neighbourhood. At the age of nineteen he unaccountably became furiously mad, from which condition he gradually settled down into harmless insanity.”
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“I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right”
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“came from Norwich, England, in 1638”
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13newsnow.com: President Trump responds to concerns from military families over USS Abraham Lincoln deployment
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The Hill: House Democrats question Navy Secretary on conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
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The Hill: Maher on USS Abraham Lincoln conditions: ‘It just makes my blood boil’
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Zona Militar: 200 días en combate, 10.000 salidas y 680 toneladas de municiones guiadas, los números que deja el despliegue del portaaviones USS Abraham Lincoln en Medio Oriente
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Yahoo: Trump dice que el portaaviones USS Abraham Lincoln no lleva el tiempo suficiente en Medio Oriente y niega crisis a bordo
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KJZZ: Arizona's Sen. Gallego says there's 'deteriorating morale' on USS Abraham Lincoln
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eluniverso.com: Donald Trump niega que condiciones de vida a bordo del portaaviones Abraham Lincoln sean preocupantes
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La Nueva Mañana: Reportan desgaste y escasez en el portaaviones Abraham Lincoln apostado en Oriente Medio
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LaSexta: Intentos suicidas, alimentación precaria, problemas de higiene... familiares denuncian las condiciones de los 5.000 soldados estadounidenses del portaaviones "Abraham Lincoln"
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cbsnews.com: Navy families say morale is low aboard USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier
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The Guardian: US navy veterans and military health experts express concern over USS Abraham Lincoln sailors
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Resumen Latinoamericano -: Estados Unidos. Tensión en el Abraham Lincoln: marineros intentan saltar por la borda - Resumen Latinoamericano -
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The Presidential Prayer Team: USS George Washington Heads to Middle East to Replace USS Abraham Lincoln
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The Jerusalem Post: Trump, Hegseth deny concerns of poor conditions, low morale reported aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
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Aquí Madrid: Trump descarta las quejas de las familias de la tripulación del USS Abraham Lincoln
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KTAR News 92.3 FM: 250 days at sea: The USS Abraham Lincoln crisis
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CNN en Español: Marineros de portaaviones como el USS Abraham Lincoln sienten la presión mientras que los despliegues se prolongan
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nbcnews.com: Trump downplays concerns about conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
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FOX5 Vegas: Senators Kelly, Gallego demand answers from Pentagon over 'tragic' conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln
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Telemundo San Diego: "Ni de lejos suficiente": Trump minimiza el tiempo récord en alta mar del USS Abraham Lincoln
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The Washington Post: Trump dismisses families’ concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions
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KXLY.com: Concerns grow for USS Abraham Lincoln
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image authentically showed the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial wearing a traffic cone hat that Scotland fans placed on it during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.” Fake.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Footage of the USS Abraham Lincoln after it was hit by Iranian missiles.” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Video of USS Abraham Lincoln struck by Iranian missiles” AI-generated.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows USS Abraham Lincoln on fire after Iran strikes” False.
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Full Fact rated the claim “A picture shows the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire after being hit by Iranian missiles.” False. This image isn’t real and was made using Google AI tools..
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fact checker rated the claim “U.S. aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford en route to join USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.” misleading.
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fact checker rated the claim “Chinese ship tracking the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln off the coast of Iran.” misleading.
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fact checker rated the claim “Recent footage filmed aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier strike group USS Abraham Lincoln.” misleading.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln."” Historians disagree.
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Snopes rated the claim “Abraham Lincoln once said, "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."” Incorrect Attribution.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"The satanic left removed Abraham Lincoln from ballots for fighting slavery. ... Now they’re trying to remove Donald Trump from ballots for fighting child sex slavery."” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Abraham Lincoln challenged a guy to a sword fight.”” Half True.
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“The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven, by Abraham Lincoln”
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Schwartz argued that Lincoln's symbolic power has lost relevance since World War II, and this "fading hero is symptomatic of fading confidence in national greatness
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“The Hampton Roads Peace Conference: A Final Test of Lincoln's Presidential Leadership”
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With the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D
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Career landmark: second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
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Career landmark: president.
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Career landmark: first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
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Career landmark: assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Career landmark: funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln.
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Died 1865-04-15.
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Five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D
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In which Lincoln stated his preference that the franchise be conferred on some Black men, specifically "on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers", Booth plotted to assassinate the President
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“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. (ang.)”
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“My concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God’s side. For God is always right! (ang.)”
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“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
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“Najlepszy sposób, by zniszczyć wroga, to uczynić go przyjacielem.”
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“Democracy: government of the people, by the people, for the people”
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“Nie pomaga się ludziom, robiąc za nich to, co sami mają zrobić.”
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“Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?”
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“Best remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt”
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“Demagogia – to umiejętność ubierania najbardziej lichych idei w najwznioślejsze słowa.”
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
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“Istnieje naturalna odraza w umysłach niemal wszystkich białych do przemieszania rasy białej z czarną…”
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“Well, for people that like that sort of thing, I think it is just about the sort of thing they would like.”
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
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“Opis: drugie przemówienie inauguracyjne (4 marca 1865).”
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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
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“on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers”
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
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“If I had nine hours to cut down a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe”
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (ang.)”
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Lincoln signed into law the Yosemite Grant, which provided unprecedented federal protection for the area now known as Yosemite National Park
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But the first vote in the House of Representatives fell short of the required two-thirds majority
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“If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong”
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Sought to heal the war-torn nation through Reconstruction
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That he would have received more re-election support in Minnesota had he executed all 303 warriors
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Delivered the Gettysburg Address, which became one of the most famous speeches in American history
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“Ogłaszamy, że począwszy od 1 stycznia 1863 roku wszystkie osoby uznawane za niewolników w dowolnym stanie lub terytorium, które ma uzyskać status stanu, a które będą buntować się przeciwko Stanom Zjednoczonym, staną się odtąd na zawsze wolne (…).”
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“The bare sight of fifty thousand armed, and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once”
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Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the slaves in the states "in rebellion" to be free
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Established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to oversee "national banks," which were subject to federal, rather than state, regulation
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Issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the ten states not then under Union control, exempting areas under such control
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Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed that, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state still in rebellion would be free
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Lincoln reviewed a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation with his cabinet
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And after victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving holiday, to be celebrated on the final Thursday of November 1863
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“Opis: fragment listu z sierpnia 1862 do Horace’ego Greeleya, redaktora gazety „New-York Tribune.”
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Black people – enslaved and free – gathered across the United States to hold Watch Night ceremonies for "Freedom's Eve", looking toward the promised fulfillment of the Proclamation
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Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief; he elevated Henry Halleck to the post and appointed John Pope as head of the new Army of Virginia
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Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act, which authorized judicial proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederates
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Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War
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In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said that, because he held "such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express, and irrevocable"
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Lincoln gave a particularly emotional farewell address upon leaving Springfield for Washington
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And 1862, but Lincoln overrode both: he found that the decision to emancipate was not within the generals' power, and that it might induce loyal border states to secede
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While France established a puppet regime in Mexico
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“such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express, and irrevocable”
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1861–1865).
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Scott proposed the Anaconda Plan, which relied on port blockades and advancing down the Mississippi to subdue the South
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“Opis: pierwsze orędzie prezydenckie wygłoszone w marcu 1861.”
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South Carolina adopted an ordinance of secession; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas had followed
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Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1860–1861).
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And had served as a judge in the Illinois court circuit where Lincoln practiced
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“The taste is in my mouth a little”
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And Lincoln's 1856 campaigning and support of Trumbull had earned him a favor
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“Opis: debata wyborcza ze Stephanem Douglasem we wrześniu 1858 w Charleston (na południu stanu Illinois).”
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“Opis: debata wyborcza ze Stephanem Douglasem w lipcu 1858 w Chicago (na północy stanu Illinois).”
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"I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist
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“I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist.... I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.”
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Lincoln was elected to the Illinois legislature, but before the term began he declined to take his seat so that he would be eligible to run in the upcoming U
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And died of edema at age 18 on July 16, 1871
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And died of a fever at the White House on February 20, 1862
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Lincoln more frequently expressed a dependence on God
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Received a patent for a flotation device for the movement of riverboats in shallow water
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Career landmark: United States representative (1847–1849).
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Died February 1, 1850, probably of tuberculosis
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The couple bought a house in Springfield near his law office
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Lincoln sought the Whig nomination for Illinois's 7th district seat in the U
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And was the only child to live to maturity
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Lincoln met Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois, and the following year they became engaged
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Lincoln delivered an address at the Lyceum in Springfield, after the murder of the anti-slavery newspaper editor Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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Wrote Owens a letter saying he would not blame her if she ended the relationship, and she declined to marry him
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Lincoln agreed to marry Owens if she returned to New Salem
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As a supporter of Whig Party leader Henry Clay, he finished second among thirteen candidates running for four places
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Career landmark: member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1834–1842).
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The Lincoln–Berry General Store became a tavern as well
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Declared his candidacy for the Illinois House of Representatives, though he interrupted his campaign to serve as a captain in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War
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Lincoln's father moved the family to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois, after which Abraham struck out on his own
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Lincoln's sister died in childbirth, devastating him
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Nancy died from milk sickness, leaving 11-year-old Sarah in charge of the household, which included her father, 9-year-old Abraham, and Nancy's 19-year-old orphan cousin, Dennis Hanks
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The family moved to Indiana, where land titles were more reliable
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Abraham Lincoln was raised on Sinking Spring Farm and Knob Creek Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky
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Born 1809-02-12.
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