| Abraham Lincoln- 16th President
Party: Republican
Term: March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865
Age at Inauguration: 52
Life Span: Feb 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865 [56]
Spouse: Mary Todd - Age at Marriage: 33
Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin - Andrew Johnson The first Republican to assume the office, Lincoln was elected after Southern states had already declared a secession from the Union Within thirty days Lincoln was forced to organize a Union Army Licoln was the first president to sport a beard He grew the beard after receiving a letter from a young girl who suggested his appearance would improve if he did so. He was the first president who born outside the original thirteen colonies. In 1863 he officially decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday Just weeks after the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the confederacy, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at close range while attending a play at Ford's Theater in the capital Presidential Assassinations the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor of the day and Southern sympathizer, was later killed by pursuers in a barn outside Washington. Almost one hundred years later historians would compile similarities between the Lincoln tragedy and the John Kennedy assassination in 1963 Lincoln-Kennedy Similarities |
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