General informationAbraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
President order: 16
National Union
Born in Kentucky
Sworn in on 3/4/1861
Age at inauguration: 52
Between 1 and 2 terms

Biography

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President
 of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He 
successfully led the country through its greatest constitutional, military and 
moral crisis - the American Civil War - by preserving the Union by force while 
ending slavery and promoting economic modernization. Reared in a poor family on 
the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, 
an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House 
of Representatives but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States 
Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband and father of four
 children.

Early life:
Abraham Lincoln (no middle name) was born on February 12, 1809, the second 
child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln (née Hanks), in a one-room log cabin
 on the Sinking Spring Farm in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky.


Marriage and family:
Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first 
moved to New Salem by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged. 
Ann wanted to notify a former love before "consummating the engagement to Mr. L. 
with marriage." Rutledge died, however, on August 25, most likely of typhoid fever.

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