Abraham Lincoln

The 16th President of the United States of America

Early life

• log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln

• February 12, 1809• 1840- Marry Todd• November 4, 1842 married Mary Todd- four

children • U.S. House of Representative from 1847-1849

Presidency

• Republican 1856• Believed all men were created with certain

inalienable rights• Received 40 percent of the popular vote, but

carried 180 of 303 Electoral votes. • Civil war broke out-1861

Civil War

• $2,000,000 – taken from the Treasury for war materiel

• 75,000 volunteers • Broke the Habeas Corpus law• September 22, 1862- slavery abolished

Gettysburg Address

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ

Later life

• Assassinated on April 14, 1865• Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.• John Wilkes Booth • Coma for nine hours• Buried in Springfield, Illinoise