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 ).

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.

Historian Paul Nagel argues that, like Abraham Lincoln after him, Adams suffered from depression for much of his life.

It is now postulated that Abraham Lincoln suffered from MEN IIB, rather than Marfan's syndrome as previously thought, though this is uncertain.

" Abraham Lincoln believed that assassinating a leader is morally justified when a people has suffered under a tyrant for an extended period of time and has exhausted all legal and peaceful means of ouster.

Abraham died prematurely on December 25, 1925, from complications of a lung infection and may have suffered from lung cancer.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

His highly influenced style which incorporated Italianate lighting from Jan Both, broken brush technique and atonality from Jan van Goyen, and his ever-developing style from his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp was studied acutely by his most prominent follower, Abraham van Calraet.

Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation was that being rooted in " the seed of Abraham " referred to physical lineage from Abraham.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

* The Book of Abraham: a translation from papyri acquired by Smith in 1835, dealing with Abraham's journeys in Egypt.

: Year One: Old Testament ( also includes some coverage of related topics in the Book of Moses and Book of Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price )

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

In the 9th or 10th century, Yehuda Ibn Quraysh compared the phonology and morphology of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, but attributed this resemblance to the Biblical story of Babel, with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph retaining Adam's language, with other languages at various removes becoming more altered from the original Hebrew.

Salmon P. Chase, class of 1826, was an American politician: Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

A New York Times transcript from an Abraham Lincoln speech written in 1862 contains "( applause and laughter "; there is some debate as to whether it is a typo, a legitimate punctuation construct, or an emoticon.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

It would appear, from Paul's response, that they cited the example of Abraham, who was circumcised as a mark of receiving the covenant blessings (), see also Abrahamic religion.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.