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Abraham Lincoln our 16th president

Abraham Lincoln successfully led the United States though its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War. With the American Civil War he kept the Union, and ended slavery. Lincoln was mostly self educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives. During the Civil War Lincoln won the Republican Nomination and was elected President in 1860. As a president he concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort, always seeking to reunify the nation as one. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth AMendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery. Six days after the surrender of the main Confederate forces, Lincoln was assassinated, the first president to suffer in such a way.