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| Name |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Prefix |
President |
| Birth |
12 Feb 1809 |
Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
25 Apr 1865 |
Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
| Burial |
4 May 1865 |
Lincoln Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
2 Aug 1877 |
| FamilySearch ID |
LZJW-C31 |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I92743 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Thomas Lincoln, b. 6 Jan 1778, Rockingham, Virginia, United States d. 17 Jan 1851, Coles, Illinois, United States (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Nancy Shipley Hanks, b. 5 Feb 1784, Hampshire, Virginia, United States d. 5 Oct 1818, Gentryville, Spencer, Indiana, United States (Age 34 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Jun 1806 |
Beechland, Washington, Kentucky, United States |
| Family ID |
F30372 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Ann "Molly" Todd, b. 13 Dec 1818, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States d. 16 Jul 1882, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
4 Nov 1842 |
Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. Robert Todd Lincoln, b. 1 Aug 1843, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States d. 26 Jul 1926, Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States (Age 82 years) |
| | 2. Edward Baker "Eddie" Lincoln, b. 10 Mar 1846, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States d. 1 Feb 1850, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States (Age 3 years) |
| | 3. William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, b. 21 Dec 1850, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States d. 20 Feb 1862, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Age 11 years) |
| | 4. Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, b. 4 Apr 1853, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States d. 15 Jul 1871, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States (Age 18 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30371 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 12 Feb 1809 - Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States |
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 | Marriage - 4 Nov 1842 - Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States |
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 | Death - 25 Apr 1865 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
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 | Burial - 4 May 1865 - Lincoln Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States |
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| Notes |
- 16th President of the United States.
He was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th preside n t of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Linco l n led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preser vi ng the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, a n d modernizing the U.S. economy.
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raise d o n the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and becam e a la wyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congr essma n from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but becam e vexe d by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of th e Kansas –Nebraska Act. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leade r in the ne w Republican Party, and he reached a national audience in th e 1858 debate s against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for President in 186 0, sweeping th e North in victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South equa ted his succes s with the North's rejection of their right to practice sl avery, and sout hern states began seceding from the Union. To secure it s independence, th e new Confederate States fired on Fort Sumter, a U.S . fort in the South , and Lincoln called up forces to suppress the rebell ion and restore th e Union.
Lincoln, a moderate Republican, had to navigate a contentious array of f a ctions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republic a n parties. His allies, the War Democrats and the Radical Republicans, d em anded harsh treatment of the Southern Confederates. Anti-war Democrat s (c alled "Copperheads") despised Lincoln, and irreconcilable pro-Confed erat e elements plotted his assassination. He managed the factions by exp loiti ng their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage , and b y appealing to the American people. His Gettysburg Address appeal ed to na tionalistic, republican, egalitarian, libertarian, and democrati c sentime nts. Lincoln scrutinized the strategy and tactics in the war ef fort, incl uding the selection of generals and the naval blockade of th e South's tra de. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, and he averte d British interv ention by defusing the Trent Affair. He engineered the e nd to slavery wit h his Emancipation Proclamation, including his order th at the Army and Na vy liberate, protect, and recruit former slaves. He al so encouraged borde r states to outlaw slavery, and promoted the Thirteen th Amendment to th e United States Constitution, which outlawed slavery a cross the country.
Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to he a l the war-torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just d ay s after the war's end at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford' s Th eatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife Mary when he was fatally sh ot b y Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln is remembered a s a m artyr and hero of the United States and is often ranked as the grea test p resident in American history.
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