Abraham Lincoln

For starters, he was the tallest president. He stood 6 feet and four inches. He always had that dark, serious look on his face, but he was quite known for hit wit and humor. He was human, though, and did suffer bouts of mental depression. Lets dig deeper though, back to when he was born in that log cabin.

Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809. He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in a cabin that had only 1 window, 1 door, and a chimney. He was named “Abraham” after his pioneer grandfather, who was shot dead by hostile Indians 23 years before Lincoln’s birth. Lincoln’s mother and father were both illiterate, and didn’t know much more than prayers, bible stories, and how to scrawl their name. Lincoln and his older sister taught themselves numbers, reading, writing, and spelling. Lincoln went to school but altogether probably had about 1 full year of real school

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He lost, and placed 8th of 13 candidates in the district wide voting. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for vice president. The north had the advantage of greater manpower, wealth, and industrial strength. He was hired out to work with others as well. Lincoln’s career was still flourishing, he had his own law office and was elected to the U.

At 16, he finally got his first real job. The biggest campaigned for the election was Douglas, who went across the country, even in the South where he had slim chances. At the end of 1862, however, the war was obviously still far from over. Still another candidate, John Bell, was put forward by a remnant of the Whigs called the Constitutional Union Party. They also supported statehood for Kansas and a federal homestead law. ) While serving in the Legislature, he also taught himself law for 3 years. By 1864, Democrats and Republicans had a obvious difference in their stance on the race issue: Lincoln endorsed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to abolish slavery, and McClellan's pledged to return to the South the rights it had had in 1860.

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