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Abraham Lincoln was a man of extraordinary achievements. From becoming the 16th president to writing the Gettysburg Address. But despite his very well know accomplishments he had a difficult time as a child growing up such as.  His mother had died when he was only 9 years old. He was born February 12, 1809, in Harden Country, Kentucky. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and his mother’s name was Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He had two other siblings a sister and a brother. Their names were Sarah and Thomas, he died at infancy. Sarah lived to the age of twenty, married but died at twenty. Since the Lincoln family faced a lawsuit challenging the title to their Kentucky farm, Abraham Lincoln’s father Thomas decided to move the family to Indiana. The worst part of his childhood was his mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s death in the autumn of 1818. His father remarried a widow with two girls and a boy her name was Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. They began to move from Indiana to Illinois.  Lincoln was not a very well educated man. He attended an ABC school in Kentucky and also one in Indiana. All through his life he had not even a year of education. His stepmother encouraged  Lincoln to learn to read, and at an early age he could.  Lincoln’s political career was at first not so great he lost the election for state legislature in 1832. He was then elected on the Whig ticket two years later in the lower house from 1834 to 1841. Lincoln had quickly gained experience as a good political man.   Abraham Lincoln had met a woman called Mary Todd. They met at a dance at her sister's home in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln had doubts about their wedding and called it off in January 1, 1841. In the summer of 1842, friends got Mary and Lincoln back together. They then married on the evening of November 4, 1842 in Springfield, Illinois in the parlor of the home of her sister, Elizabeth Edwards. They had four children, there names were Edward, who died at infancy, William who died when he was twelve, Thomas died at the age of twenty, and Robert who lived to adulthood. In 1860 republican’s nominated Lincoln to run for president. He was up against two of his rivals Douglas and John C. Breckinridge and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party. Lincoln won the election and became president. Lincoln took oath on March 4, 1861. The Confederacy was determined break away from the Union and form its own nation. They were determined to expand and were threatening the forts that were owned by the North. Lincoln first did not take action. But after Fort Sumter he had to take action. The final Emancipation Proclamation was given on January 1, 1863 what this did is this it said that all slaves were to be set free, but the South went against this and did not listen to it. At his second inaugural, Lincoln attributing to the consequences of the war and slavery summed up his feelings in his famous phrase “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” Also a few weeks later he announced his support for limited suffrage for blacks. While attending Fords Theatre in Washington D.C. John Wilkes Booth, who was a well know actor for Confederate sympathies shot and killed Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Lincoln then died the next day. Booth was a who was born on May 10, 1838 and died on April 26, 1865. Lincoln was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Spring Field Illinois.  It includes a 117-foot-tall granite obelisk surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln, which was constructed by 1874. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of his four sons are also buried there Robert Todd Lincoln is buried in Arlington. 

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