68 Facts About President Abraham

President Abraham was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and US Congressman from Illinois.

President Abraham reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen Douglas.

President Abraham managed the factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people.

President Abraham suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, and he averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair.

President Abraham sought to heal the war-torn nation through reconciliation.

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President Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a martyr and a national hero for his wartime leadership and for his efforts to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.

President Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12,1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.

President Abraham was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.

President Abraham's children, including eight-year-old Thomas, Abraham's father, witnessed the attack.

President Abraham became close to his stepmother and called her "Mother".

President Abraham's stepmother acknowledged he did not enjoy "physical labor", but loved to read.

President Abraham persisted as an avid reader and retained a lifelong interest in learning.

President Abraham was an active wrestler during his youth and trained in the rough catch-as-catch-can style.

President Abraham gained a reputation for strength and audacity after winning a wrestling match with the renowned leader of ruffians known as "the Clary's Grove Boys".

In March 1830, fearing another milk sickness outbreak, several members of the extended Lincoln family, including President Abraham, moved west to Illinois, a free state, and settled in Macon County.

President Abraham then became increasingly distant from Thomas, in part due to his father's lack of education.

President Abraham answered that in the practice of law he frequently came across the word "demonstrate" but had insufficient understanding of the term.

President Abraham died on August 25,1835, most likely of typhoid fever.

President Abraham was the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a wealthy lawyer and businessman in Lexington, Kentucky.

President Abraham could draw crowds as a raconteur, but lacked the requisite formal education, powerful friends, and money, and lost the election.

President Abraham championed construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and later was a Canal Commissioner.

President Abraham voted to expand suffrage beyond white landowners to all white males, but adopted a "free soil" stance opposing both slavery and abolition.

President Abraham was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1836, and moved to Springfield and began to practice law under John T Stuart, Mary Todd's cousin.

President Abraham partnered several years with Stephen T Logan, and in 1844 began his practice with William Herndon, "a studious young man".

President Abraham was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but as dutiful as any participated in almost all votes and made speeches that toed the party line.

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President Abraham was assigned to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.

President Abraham supported the Wilmot Proviso, a failed proposal to ban slavery in any US territory won from Mexico.

President Abraham later represented a bridge company against a riverboat company in Hurd v Rock Island Bridge Company, a landmark case involving a canal boat that sank after hitting a bridge.

President Abraham argued the decision was at variance with the Declaration of Independence; he said that while the founding fathers did not believe all men equal in every respect, they believed all men were equal "in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".

President Abraham insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong".

President Abraham hired John George Nicolay as his personal secretary, who would remain in that role during the presidency.

President Abraham was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West.

President Abraham gave a particularly emotional farewell address upon leaving Springfield; he would never again return to Springfield alive.

President Abraham responded to the unprecedented political and military crisis as commander-in-chief by exercising unprecedented authority.

President Abraham expanded his war powers, imposed a blockade on Confederate ports, disbursed funds before appropriation by Congress, suspended habeas corpus, and arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers.

President Abraham relied on his combative Secretary of State William Seward while working closely with Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Charles Sumner.

President Abraham tracked all phases of the effort, consulting with governors, and selecting generals based on their success, their state, and their party.

President Abraham worked more often and more closely with Lincoln than any other senior official.

President Abraham sought to persuade the states to agree to compensation for emancipating their slaves.

President Abraham felt such action could be taken only within the war powers of the commander-in-chief, which he planned to exercise.

President Abraham kept his word and, on January 1,1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas under such control.

President Abraham defined the war as dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality for all.

President Abraham declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end, and the future of democracy would be assured, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

President Abraham arranged for an intermediary to inquire into Grant's political intentions, and once assured that he had none, Lincoln promoted Grant to the newly revived rank of Lieutenant General, a rank which had been unoccupied since George Washington.

President Abraham's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 2,1864.

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President Abraham emphasized defeat of the Confederate armies over destruction for its own sake.

Confederate Vice President Abraham Stephens led a group meeting with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

President Abraham declared that such an amendment would "clinch the whole matter" and by December 1863 an amendment was brought to Congress.

President Abraham signed Senator Charles Sumner's Freedmen's Bureau bill that set up a temporary federal agency designed to meet the immediate needs of former slaves.

President Abraham had long made clear his opposition to the confiscation and redistribution of land.

President Abraham believed, as most Republicans did in April 1865, that the voting requirements should be determined by the states.

President Abraham assumed that political control in the South would pass to white Unionists, reluctant secessionists, and forward-looking former Confederates.

President Abraham used appointments to the Indian Bureau as a reward to supporters from Minnesota and Wisconsin.

President Abraham slowly realized that the trials could be divided into two groups: combat between combatants and combat against civilians.

President Abraham placed 263 cases into the first group and commuted their sentences for the largest mass commutation in history.

President Abraham signed the Revenue Act of 1861, creating the first US income tax—a flat tax of 3 percent on incomes above $800.

President Abraham closely watched the handling of the Trent Affair in late 1861 to make sure there was no escalation into a war with Britain.

President Abraham was successful after indicating to London and Paris that Washington would declare war on them if they supported Richmond.

President Abraham was deeply familiar with the Bible, quoting and praising it.

President Abraham was private about his position on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others.

President Abraham never made a clear profession of Christian beliefs.

President Abraham never joined a church, although he frequently attended First Presbyterian Church with his wife beginning in 1852.

President Abraham took blue mass pills, which contained mercury, to treat constipation.

President Abraham did this at a time when the Constitution, which "tolerated slavery", was the focus of most political discourse.

President Abraham denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints.

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President Abraham was viewed by abolitionists as a champion of human liberty.

President Abraham noted that Lincoln used ethnic slurs and told jokes that ridiculed blacks.

President Abraham has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names, including the capital of Nebraska.