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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln . Born: February 12 th 1809 Died: April 14 th 1865 At the age of 56. Childhood. Home state Illinois Born in Kentucky Grew up in a one room log Cabin As a teen Lincoln did not like the hard labor that went along with frontier life.

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Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Abraham Lincoln Born: February 12th 1809 Died: April 14th 1865 At the age of 56

  2. Childhood • Home state Illinois • Born in Kentucky • Grew up in a one room log Cabin • As a teen Lincoln did not like the hard labor that went along with frontier life. • Some people in his town and family thought him to be lazy • Had little “formal” education (totaled about 18 months) • Self educated • Taught himself to pass the Bar Exam (Lawyer)

  3. Personal Life • Lost his childhood sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) Died of Typhoid Fever • Married to Mary Todd (Wealthy Kentucky Socialite) • Her parents disagreed with the marriage because of his poor background • Had 4 sons • Robert • Eddie • Willie • Thomas (Tad) • Mary Todd fell into a deep depression with the deaths of her sons and husband (Mental Asylum)

  4. Lincoln Boys • 1. Robert Lincoln • Only Lincoln boy to survive into adulthood 2. Eddie Lincoln Died at age of 4 (1850) to fever/illness likely Tuberculosis 3. Willie Lincoln Died at age of 11 (1862) 4. Thomas (Tad) Lincoln Died from heart failure at the age of 18

  5. Careers Age 30- Taken by fellow law Students • At age 23 partnered in opening a small general store in Illinois • Village Postmaster • Lawyer • Tried many smaller cases • Also a well known murder trial that put him on the map.

  6. Political Career • Illinois General Assembly • Illinois Congressman (4 years) • Ran for U.S. Senate for Illinois (Lost to….) • Stephen A. Douglas • Lincoln/Douglas Debates (Main topic?) • Slavery • 16th president of the United States (served 2 terms) (1861-1865) • Assassinated in 2nd term (1865)

  7. Accomplishments • 16th President of the United States of America • Emancipation Proclamation • Gettysburg Address • Lead the Union to a victory during the Civil War • RESTORED THE UNION

  8. Events Leading to his Death • He had a premonition of his death • Attended a play (Our American Cousin) at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14th 1865 • Seated in the balcony with Mary Todd • Shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth • Confederate Sympathizer • Actor • 12 days later he was corned by federal troops and shot dead in a Virginia barn

  9. The Premonition Shared with his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon… "About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. I saw light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered.

  10. Premonition Cont. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since."

  11. Random facts • Lincoln’s stovepipe top hat served as more than fashionable headwear.  He used it to store and carry notes, letters, even bills. • He was 6’4” tall • Robert Lincoln was a magnet for tragedy: • Present for Garfield’s assassination • Present when McKinley was assassinated.  • He was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of his father’s killer, John Wilkes Booth.

  12. There are some pretty bizarre coincidences between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.  Here are a couple: • Both were shot in the head with one bullet on a Friday. • Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, Kennedy in 1946. • Lincoln’s successor (named Johnson) was born in 1808. Kennedy’s successor (also named Johnson) was born in 1908. • Lincoln’s assassin (who went by three names: John Wilkes Booth) was born in 1839. • Kenney’s assassin (who also went by three names: Lee Harvey Oswald) was born in 1939. http://www.springfield-vr.com/lincolns-tomb/index-tomb.html

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