who was abraham lincoln?
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Abraham Lincoln was the American President who was able to control this country despite it being in the throes of a civil war.  After this country was ravaged by this terrible war, he was able to successfully rebuild this country and to begin the process of elevating America to a high status.\nHe was the man who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, in essence freeing all the slaves.  In fact, this proclamation had no power over the slaves since the south had created its' own country.  Abraham Lincoln was a very amazing and charismatic politician who successfully led this country through one of its lowest points in history.
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He was a colonel when the civil war (war between the states) started. Quickly promoted to general. And eventually became lieutenant general and general in chief.\n\nHis major contribution was dictating surrender terms to Robert E Lee (these terms were very generous, which Lincoln had intended).
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.  He led the country during the Civil War and is generally given great credit for preserving the Union. He also signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the rebelling Confederacy, although this was more of a political manuever than anything else.  He was assassinated shortly after the end of the war by an angry Southerner.  \n\nYou can find more information at the link I've provided below.
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I know it was Abraham Lincoln, but I don't know the time frame.
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Hones Abe! he is the example of the saying. you can be anything you want to be.  He had great ideas,I have read several books on him. He was really the best General, from both sides,during the Civil War.
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the reason is that Abraham Lincoln the man who freed the blacks from slavery has his birthday in February
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president.\n\n\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. \n\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. \n\nBut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth.
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The 16th President of the United States.  He lead the country throught the Civil War in the 1800s and was killed before he could oversee the postwar reconstruction.
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Why is this question posted in "Law Enforcement & Police" ?\n\nFebruary 12, 1809\n\nAfter doing a very simple Yahoo search for: "abraham+lincoln"\n\nWith the first result listing \nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html\n\nBorn: February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky \n\nDied: April 15, 1865. Lincoln died the morning after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor.
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The election was won by Abraham Lincoln, but not by a majority vote.  He was elected with 43% of the popular vote.  Southern states began seceeding immediately.
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He did not so much abuse presidential power as he expanded it. \n\nHe convinced Congress to suspend Habeus Corpus. \n\nNothing in the Constitution prior to the Civil War suggested that states could not secede, but Mr. Lincoln forged an amendment in blood over the issue.
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It has to be Abraham Lincoln....started the civil war. It was unnecessary and illegal and killed a lot of innocent men and civilians.  Slavery could have been abolished politically.  Abe wanted more. He wanted centralized Government.
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Abraham Lincoln was the first "Republican" President, elected in 1860.  It is simplistic to think that one side was Democrat and the other was Republican.  Just like today, there are Democrats and Republicans in all States.  The correct way to look at this would be in terms of political ideology rather than parties.  That is "Federalists"; those that believed in a strong national government and "Anti-federalists"; those that believed in strong states rights and a weak national government.  The "North" was "Federalist" and the "South" was "Anti-federalist"\n** Note:Prior to the 1860 election, the two major parties were the Whigs and the Democrart-Rebublicans (Democrats for short) originally founded by Thomas Jefferson.
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My first thought was Nero, good choice. As for not listening to the facts, I'm really not sure what our conservative friends are referring to. People that refer to Abraham Lincoln "starting" the Civil War need to get their facts straight. Lincoln's goal in the Civil War was to keep the Union strong and together. The war was "started" by the Confederacy with the bombing of Fort Sumpter.
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James Buchanan, 15th President of the USA.\n\nI studied him at college as part of a course relating to Abe Lincoln whom he preceded.\n\nHe was also the only Secretary of State to also become President.
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Abraham Lincoln. Preserved the union despite the civil war and freed the slaves. He was a great thinker and orator as well.
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Just exactly who is Aberham lincoln?\nI know Abraham did not start the tradition.