Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States.
Lincoln was born to a poor farming family in Kentucky on 12 February 1809. It’s true he was born in a log cabin, but this is not so uncommon as might be supposed — several presidents before him had also been born in log cabins.
His father, Thomas, working as a carpenter and was a hardworking man.
Arbrahams mother Nancy was 25 years old when she gave birth to Abraham. She could neither read nor write, but Abraham was known for his love of reading, he would walk miles from his home just to borrow books from neighbors and if he read something he did not know he read it over and over again to he understood it. He also wrote everything important he had read down if he had papers, which he often did not.
Lincoln was the first president from the Republican Party. He was president under the Civil War 1861-1865 and was responsible for emancipator of the slaves. He is today regarded as one of the greatest presidents America ever had. He was murdered at Ford's Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865 while he watched Our American Cousin. Murderer was Shakespeare the actor John Wilkes Booth.
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