Abraham Lincoln emerged as an incarnation of the national Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

A sketch of candidate Abraham Lincoln

A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.

* The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

* Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln

* The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Springfield, Illinois

* The Papers of Abraham Lincoln documentary editing project

* National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight – Abraham Lincoln

* Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries

* Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress

* Abraham Lincoln at C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

While in Washington, Doubleday remained a loyal Republican and staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

Cuomo is the author of Why Lincoln Matters ( 2004 ) and sits on the Advisory Council of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

A strong advocate for preserving the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, LaHood authored a law that established the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, which laid the groundwork for celebrating the 16th President's 200th birthday in 2009.

* Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States ' 16th president, celebrated in 2009

An extended ceremony, organized by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission ( ALBC ) and with help from MOLLUS, featured musical performances from four-time Grammy-nominated singer Michael Feinstein and the U. S. Marine Corps.

The foundation also supports the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

On April 12, 2009, Graves performed a tribute concert to Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, organized by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

In 2009, MOLLUS helped coordinate an extended tribute with the help of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to celebrate Lincoln's 200th birthday.

Mackevich, 71, formerly served as the Executive Director of the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

* Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

* National Battlefields Commission ( Plains of Abraham )

* Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Abraham Zapruder, vol.

The 1908 tricentennial of the founding of Quebec City, and the establishment that same year of the National Battlefields Commission to preserve the Plains of Abraham, acted as a catalyst for federal efforts to designate and preserve historic sites across Canada.

* National Battlefields Commission ( Plains of Abraham ).

In Quebec, the Plains of Abraham were developed as a landscaped historical park, following creation of the National Battlefields Commission in 1908.

The annual bake sale also suffers-without Marge's marshmallow squares, the Springfield Park Commission fails to raise enough money to pay for a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Proof sets issued in 2009 contain 18 coins – the most ever included – as that year marked the Lincoln Birth Bicentennial and featured four different reverses for the Lincoln Cent.

The morning celebration also featured remarks by Sen. Dick Durbin ; Lincoln scholar and ALBC Co-Chair Harold Holzer ; recently retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice – and ALBC Commissioner – Frank J. Williams ; and author Nikki Giovanni reciting her newest work, which was written especially for the Bicentennial.

* James Earl Jones has performed the piece several times, including with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration in February 2009, as well as with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra ( David Itkin, conductor ), February 1999.