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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and ended slavery. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he 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, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband, and father of four children.
Lincoln was an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, which he deftly articulated in his campaign debates and speeches. As a result, he secured the Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. As president he concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort, always seeking to reunify the nation after the secession of the eleven Confederate States of America. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war powers, including the arrest and detention, without trial, of thousands of suspected secessionists. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.
Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. He brought leaders of various factions of both parties into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate. He defused a confrontation with Britain in the Trent affair late in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond. Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another, until finally Grant succeeded in 1865. A shrewd politician deeply involved with patronage and power issues in each state, he managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.
As the leader of the moderate faction of the
Republican party, Lincoln
came under attack from all sides. Radical Republicans wanted harsher treatment
of the South, Democrats desired more compromise, and secessionists saw him as
their enemy. Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents
against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of
oratory; for example, his Gettysburg
Address of 1863 became one of the most quoted speeches in history. It was an
iconic statement of America's
dedication to the principles of nationalism, equal rights, liberty, and
democracy. At the close of the war, Lincoln
held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation
through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter
divisiveness. Just six days after the decisive surrender of the commanding
general of the Confederate army, Lincoln fell victim to an assassin — the first
President to suffer such a fate. Lincoln has
consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S.
Presidents.
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