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

* The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

* 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.

The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant political party in the North, electing its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.

With the translation of the Avesta by Abraham Anquetil-Duperron and the discovery of the Indo-European languages by Sir William Jones complex connections between the early history of Eastern and Western cultures emerged.

The story attributes to Abraham elements from the story of Moses ' birth ( the cruel king killing innocent babies, with the midwives ordered to kill them ) and from the careers of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who emerged unscathed from the fire.

Abrahamic philosophy, in its loosest sense, comprises the series of philosophical schools that emerged from the study and commentary of the common ancient Semitic tradition which can be traced by their adherents to Abraham (" Father / Leader of many " Hebrew א ַ ב ְ ר ָ ה ָ ם (" Avraham ") Arabic ابراهيم (" Ibrahim "), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, and as a prophet in the Qur ' an and also called a prophet in Genesis 20: 7 ).

King's Sentinel supported William H. Seward for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, but rallied around Abraham Lincoln when he emerged as the nominee.

However, with his incarnation, God took on " the seed of Abraham "; this was something unique, as he had never taken on " the nature of angels " while previously manifesting himself as " the Word ".

Some episodes feature Duckula's nemesis Doctor Von Goosewing ( based on Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the nemesis of Dracula ), a vampire hunter who blindly refuses to believe the current incarnation of Duckula is harmless.

These issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

* 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November ( since 1941, on the fourth Thursday ).

However Thanksgiving would not become established as a national holiday until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that it would be celebrated on the final Thursday in November.

The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

In 1860 the American National Republican Convention included in their electoral platform, on which Abraham Lincoln stood for President, the following statement: "... We brand the recent re-opening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity ".

Other prominent sportsmen from the city are Prahlad Srinath, who has represented India in Davis Cup tennis tournaments ; Reeth Abraham, a national champion in the heptathlon and a long jump record holder ; Sagar Kashyap, the youngest Indian to officiate at the Wimbledon Championships ; and Rahul Ganapathy, a national amateur golf champion.

Conceived in 1912 and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. by nine years.

The association has active state chapters in 12 Lincoln Highway states and maintains a national tourist center in Franklin Grove, Illinois, in an historic building built by Harry Isaac Lincoln, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

The decision is acknowledged for the influential role it played in altering the national political landscape: the decision is credited with launching Abraham Lincoln ’ s national political career and ultimately allowing for his election.

The Lincoln Highway Association ( LHA ) maintains a national tourist center in Franklin Grove, in a historic building built by Harry Isaac Lincoln, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

These two national sites still allow visitors to glimpse at the land that most influenced the life of Abraham Lincoln.

On April 30, 1865, a nine-car funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body and about 300 mourners, stopped for memorial ceremonies at New Paris, one of many stops of the president's " national funeral " procession from Washington to Springfield, Illinois.

Her 20-part series on Abraham Lincoln doubled the magazine's circulation, and was published in a book, giving her a national reputation as a major writer and the leading authority on the slain president.

In 1864, in the interest of fostering national unity, Abraham Lincoln from the Republican Party ( popular in the North ) and Andrew Johnson of the Democratic Party ( popular in the South ), were co-endorsed and run together for President and Vice-President as candidates of the National Union Party.

Williams died, and the following year, Abraham Lincoln signed the First Morrill Act of 1862 to support similar colleges, making the Michigan school a national model.

In 1756, Sarti provided the music for the first syngespil which, in the early 1790s, became established as a popular national genre with Høstgildet ( the Harvest Celebration ) and Peters Bryllup ( Peter's Wedding ) both composed by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz.

As the townspeople try to move the town's statue of Jubilation T. Cornpone, a plaque bearing a declaration by Abraham Lincoln is revealed: because Cornpone's military blunders almost single-handedly allowed the North to win the Civil War, Dogpatch is designated a national shrine.

1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters ; Abraham Lincoln's election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parochial interests and affiliations.

" It's fine to have him speak at a conference or colloquium ," said the league's national director Abraham Foxman.

He made a thorough study of tactics, and, when President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress the rebellion in 1861, he was second lieutenant of the company which promptly marched for the defence of the national capital.

U. S. Bancorp operates under the second-oldest continuous national charter, originally Charter # 24, granted during Abraham Lincoln ’ s administration in 1863 following the passage of the National Banking Act.