In the United States, the Lincoln catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, has been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda since Lincoln's death.

The coffin or casket is usually placed on a catafalque, usually the Lincoln catafalque, so named as it was constructed upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, from when he lay in state following his assassination in 1865.

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.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

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

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

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award, which has since been awarded annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award.

* 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1882 )

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867 and named Frank Lincoln Wright.

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

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States ( the " Union ") and formed the Confederate States of America ( the " Confederacy "), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal.

In October 1935 Nkrumah sailed from Liverpool to the United States and enrolled in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

* Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

* Lincoln, England, United Kingdom, county town of Lincolnshire

* Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, the state's capital

* University of Lincoln, a university in Lincoln, United Kingdom

* Lincoln Records, a United States record label in the 1920s

* Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ, historic church located in Washington, D. C.

Lincoln is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

* 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture.

The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

* 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, successfully preserved the Union ( American Civil War ) | Union during the American Civil War.

The Ohio General Assembly decided to replace the statue in part because " Allen ’ s pro-slavery position and outspoken criticism of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War make him a poor representative for Ohio in the U. S. Capitol.

Six of the top 10 buildings in the American Institute of Architects ' 2007 ranking of " America's Favorite Architecture " are in the District of Columbia: the White House ; the Washington National Cathedral ; the Thomas Jefferson Memorial ; the United States Capitol ; the Lincoln Memorial ; and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Because she was found guilty of complicity in the Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt was hanged at the Capitol Prison in Washington D. C., on 7 July 1865.

In 1980, the band was invited by former Congressman David O ’ Brien Martin to play in Washington, DC on the Capitol steps and also at the Lincoln Memorial.

The term National Mall commonly includes areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and Constitution Gardens to the west, and often is taken to refer to the entire area between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center.

* Between the Capitol steps and the Lincoln Memorial, the Mall spans 1. 9 miles ( 3. 0 km ).

For instance, during his time in the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln leapt out of a first story window ( the doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing ) in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present.

Shown is a view along the National Mall, including the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial.

His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.

One was on the Anacostia River at the end of East Capitol Street ; one at Lincoln Park ; one on the south side of the National Mall across from the National Archives ; and one situated on the Tidal Basin, directly south of the White House.

The Commission preferred the site on the Tidal Basin mainly because it was the most prominent site and because it completed the four-point plan called for by the McMillan Commission ( Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol ; White House to the Tidal Basin site ).

He has also been a lead Capitol Hill supporter for the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, and is one of 15 members on the ALBC.

At the war's end, Hartranft commanded the Old Capitol Prison and was appointed a special provost marshal during the trial of those accused in the Lincoln assassination.

On the grounds of the Memorial, and offering views of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and United States Capitol, is the Netherlands Carillon.

The pipeline sent water to reservoirs in Seattle's Volunteer Park and Lincoln reservoirs on Capitol Hill.

: This article is about all reflecting pools, for the two named reflecting pools see Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Capitol Reflecting Pool.

* The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and Capitol Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D. C. ( the reflecting pool in Washington DC, as of early March 2011, is under renovation )

File: Garfield-casket. jpg | James A. Garfield's coffin lying in state on the Lincoln Catafalque in the United States Capitol Rotunda, 1881.

Slowly, but steadily, changes in conformity with that plan are now being carried out throughout the entire 2½ miles from the Capitol Grounds to the Lincoln Memorial.

Col. Osgood's portrait has been housed in the President's Room of the U. S. Capitol since the Lincoln presidency.

State Capitol, Lincoln, NebraskaLater Goodhue's architectural creations became freed of architectural detail and more Romanesque in form, although he remained dedicated to the integration of sculpture, mosaic work, and color in his surface architectural details.

* Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1924

* Abraham Lincoln ( 1911 ), Kentucky State Capitol, Lexington, Kentucky.