As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

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.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, declaring secession illegal.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

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

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

* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

As Vice President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following his assassination.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

* 1861 – President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

Abraham Lincoln assassination | Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln ; 1865 depiction.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.

That November, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address.

" Artemus Ward " was the favorite author of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.

* 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

* 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Douglass conferred with President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 on the treatment of black soldiers, and with President Andrew Johnson on the subject of black suffrage.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

Associate Justices, like the Chief Justice, are nominated by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote.

The Commandant is nominated by the President for a four-year term of office and must be confirmed by the Senate.

The Chief of Naval Operations is nominated by the President for appointment and must be confirmed via majority vote by the Senate.

On September 24, 1789, he was nominated by President George Washington to the newly created position of judge of the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania.

Without his approval, he became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Victoria Woodhull on the impracticable and small Equal Rights Party ticket.

In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

The Chief Scout is nominated by the Scouting Association's National Executive Committee and is invited by the President of the Scout Association to accept the appointment.

President James Madison appointed Adams as the first ever United States Minister to Russia in 1809 ( though Francis Dana and William Short had previously been nominated to the post, neither presented his credentials at Saint Petersburg ).

( Incumbent Whig President John Tyler — a former Democrat — had become estranged from the Whigs and was not nominated for a second term.

She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

The film, written by Rod Serling, costarred Fredric March as the President and Ava Gardner as a former flame of Lancaster's, was nominated for two Oscars.

Reuther who was named one of the 37 vice presidents of the union, nominated Meany for President.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

* 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Derek Mitchell to the U. S. Senate for confirmation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Burma.

The board has five members nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for five year terms, one of whom is nominated the Chairman by the President and then approved by the Senate for a fixed 2-year term.

The Court, which meets in the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D. C., consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate.

The Chief Justice is nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed to sit on the Court by the United States Senate.

Associate Justice William Cushing received nomination and confirmation as Chief Justice in January 1796, but declined the office ; President Washington then nominated, and the Senate confirmed, Oliver Ellsworth, who served instead.