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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is consistently ranked as the greatest American president. Rising from poverty on the frontier — largely self-educated — he became a lawyer, then congressman, then president at the moment of the nation's greatest crisis: the Civil War. His Emancipation Proclamation (1863) declared enslaved people in rebel states free and transformed the war's meaning.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (272 words) is considered the finest speech in American history. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, just days after the Civil War effectively ended. His face appears on the penny and the $5 bill.
# Top 10 Abraham Lincoln facts
- 1Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame — he lost only one of his 300+ matches
- 2He was the first president to be assassinated
- 3Lincoln suffered from depression, which he called 'the hypo,' throughout his life
Fascinating Facts
- ◆Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame — he lost only one of his 300+ matches
- ◆He was the first president to be assassinated
- ◆Lincoln suffered from depression, which he called 'the hypo,' throughout his life
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