He was born in 12th of februay 1809, and died 15th april 1865, he was 56 years old when he died.
He was the 16th president of the us, he was president in 1861 till 1865.
He grew up in Indiana, while hes father was a carpenter.
Abraham read a lot of book when he was young, he was also bery smart, compared to the other student he went to school with.
After school he wanted to be a lawyer, he went to education and he graduated some years later.
In 1942 he married Mary Todd, and in 1943 he wanted to join the political party called ” Whig ”,
and they accepted hes request in 1945, and Abraham Lincoln was now in the Whig party.
In 1854, the US wanted a railway trough Illinois, to build this, there was needed a lot of slaves, but Abraham was against this, he didn't want any slaves to do the hardwork at anything! Alot of others partys in the parliament had never heard anything like that.
Abraham lincoln was the first politician who was againt slavery.
Abrahams party liked what abraham said about slavery, so they promoted him to vicepresident.
In 1964 he was very famous, a lot of americans liked him, and wanted to vote for hes party.
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