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Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, where he resided from 1844 until becoming the nation's 16th president in 1861. Lincoln's second state house campaign in 1834, this time as a Whig, was a success over a powerful Whig opponent. [70] Then followed his four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives for Sangamon County. [71]
Abe; Honest Abe [69] Uncle Abe [70] for his avuncularity in his later years. The Ancient One, [71] a nickname favored by White House insiders because of his "ancient wisdom". Grand Wrestler, Abraham was great at wrestling and only had one recorded loss [72] The Great Emancipator [73] and The Liberator [74] for the emancipation of the slaves ...
John Lincoln gave 210 acres of prime Virginia land to his first son, Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786), [5] [7] a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.In 1770, Abraham married Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742–1836), who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky , although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery .
Thomas Lincoln was born on April 4, 1853, [1] the fourth son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His three elder brothers were Robert (1843–1926), Edward (1846–1850), and William (1850–1862). Named after his paternal grandfather Thomas Lincoln , he was soon nicknamed "Tad" by his father, for his small body and large head, and because as an ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. Today, Lincoln is remembered as guiding ...
Biographers have rejected numerous rumors about Lincoln's paternity. According to historian William E. Barton, one of these rumors began circulating in 1861 "in various forms in several sections of the South" that Lincoln's biological father was Abraham Enloe, a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, who died in that same year.
In “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” director Shaun Peterson makes a compelling case that Honest Abe was queer. The 102-minute doc features 20 Lincoln scholars and ...