Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States on February 12th, 1809 and is the US President. At the age of 56, Abraham Lincoln biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), an American statesman and lawyer, served as the country's 16th president from March 1861 to his assassination in April 1865.
Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's deadliest war and its largest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the US economy. Lincoln was born in a log cabin and raised on the frontier (mainly in Spencer County, Indiana) in a poor family.
He became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and United States senator. Representative from Illinois Bob Marshall.
He left government in 1849 to resume his law practice, but 1854, when the Kansas–Nebraska Act opened the prairie lands to slavery, he reentered politics.
In the 1858 debates against national Democratic leader Stephen Douglas in Illinois's Senate campaign, he became a leader in the new Republican Party and attracted national attention.
Early career and militia service
Lincoln worked at a general store in New Salem, Illinois, between 1831 and 1832. He declared his candidacy for the Illinois House of Representatives in 1832, but he had to abandon his efforts to serve as a captain in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War. When Lincoln returned home from war, he had intended to become a blacksmith but instead formed a company with William Berry, 21, with whom he purchased a New Salem general store on credit. Berry obtained bartending licenses for Lincoln and himself, and in 1833, the store became a tavern as well. Lincoln and Berry, licensed bartenders, were able to sell spirits, including alcohol, for 12 cents per pint. They had a large selection of alcoholic beverages as well as food, as well as takeout dinners. However, Berry became alcoholic, and Lincoln was unable to function, and Lincoln ended up running the store by himself. Despite the fact that the economy was booming, Lincoln's share was sold as a result of the downturn and plunged into debt.
Lincoln, in his first campaign speech after returning from his military service, noticed a backer in the crowd under attack, grabbed the sailant by his "neck and seat of his trousers," and tossed him out. Lincoln pushed for navigational improvements on the Sangamon River during the campaign. As a raconteur, he could have dragged audiences but he didn't have the right formal education, influential associates, and funding, and therefore lost the election. Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates (the top four were elected), but he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.
Lincoln served as New Salem's postmaster and then county surveyor, but he continued his voracious reading and became a lawyer. Lincoln rented legal documents from attorneys John Todd Stuart and Thomas Drummond, rather than investigating in the office of an established lawyer, to learn law on his own. "I studied with nobody," he later said about his legal training.