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The median age at inauguration of incoming U.S. presidents is 55 years. [1] [2] The youngest person to become U.S. president was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at age 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. [1] The oldest person inaugurated president is Joe Biden, at the age of 78. [1] [3]
Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. ... Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) [43] March 4, 1861 ...
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that that led to the Civil War. But Lincoln’s actual ...
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. First president born in Kentucky. First president born outside of the original 13 colonies. [145] First president to hold a patent. [145] First president to be assassinated. [110] First president elected as a Republican to the presidency. [86] First president to have a beard. [79]
W.F.K. Travers' 1865 painting of Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated that year at age 56.
Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to have been awarded a patent for an invention. As a young man, Lincoln took a boatload of merchandise down the Mississippi River from New Salem to New Orleans. At one point the boat slid onto a dam and was set free only after heroic efforts.