Americas most influential person the great Abraham Lincoln..?
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I would think that if Abe were here today he would say what is going on? He stood for freedom truth and justious, He would look at the world today and cry. Maybe wounder what on earth happened to the land he loved and the people he stood for. He would trust someone and in turn would get reshot now a days. The world today is a sad place, when we cant pray in public when people walk past and not even care about the world around you. Back when Abe was alive everyone stood by each other, lent a hand or two. yes there was war, poverty, and other ugly aspects, but We knew who we were. Knew who created us, Knew that there was pleanty of land for all to use and see, and Money was,nt behind it all. Now you ant no one unless you have money. Well money leads to greed if you let it. Yep i say Abe would just fall on in knees look in the sky and ask why?How? What happened to the belief?
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Martin Van Buren\nhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffpres8.htm
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Greatest: Mr. John F. Kennedy (saved our country)\nWorst: Mr. Shrubs (bush) (demoralized it)
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Lincoln. The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney, ruled Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus to be unconstitutional (only Congress has such power), but he was ignored by Lincoln as the mass arrests of political dissenters continued. As described by Dean Sprague in Freedom Under Lincoln (p. 161): "The laws were silent, indictments were not found, testimony was not taken, judges did not sit, juries were not impaneled, convictions were not obtained and sentences were not pronounced. The Anglo-Saxon concept of due process, perhaps the greatest political triumph of the ages and the best guardian of freedom, was abandoned." Thousands of political prisoners languished in Fort Lafayette in New York harbor, which came to be known as "The American Bastille." \n\nDozens of Northern newspapers were shut down and their editors and owners were imprisoned if they opposed the Lincoln administration. On May 18, 1864 Lincoln sent the following order to General John Dix: "You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce . . . and prohibit any further publication thereof . . . you are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison . . . the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers."\n\nAll telegraph communication was censored, the railroads were nationalized, and federal troops were ordered to interfere with Northern elections to ensure Republican victories. Lincoln won New York state by 7000 votes "with the help of federal bayonets," wrote Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln biographer David Donald in Lincoln Reconsidered. Several dozen members of the Maryland legislature were thrown into military prison along with the mayor of Baltimore and Congressman Henry May of Maryland so that they could not meet to discuss secession.
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865), best known for assassining the President Abraham Lincoln.\nAlso an American stage actor
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Home State Boy .... Abraham Lincoln
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yes, William Taft\n\nhttp://www.who2.com/williamtaft.html
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i think you mean Abraham Lincoln....if you do here are some things about him  \n\n \nAbraham Lincoln, U.S. President \n\nBorn: 12 February 1809 \nBirthplace: Near Hodgenville, Kentucky \nDied: 15 April 1865 (assassination by gunshot) \nBest Known As: The Civil War president who wrote the Gettysburg Address \nThe stories really are true: Abe Lincoln grew up on the American frontier, educated himself by reading borrowed books, and worked as a general store clerk long before he became the 16th president of the United States. His claims to fame are too numerous to list here; he is most often remembered for leading the Union through the Civil War and freeing Confederate slaves with the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation; for delivering the Gettysburg Address, the most famous oration in American history; and for his tragic assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Upon Lincoln's death, Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency.\n\nYes, that's Lincoln on the U.S. penny and the five dollar bill. In 1864 Lincoln named Salmon P. Chase to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court -- Chase is on the ten thousand dollar bill... Lincoln was preceded by James Buchanan, the only president to remain a bachelor for life... Lincoln was the first president to be born outside the original thirteen states... He was the first president to wear a beard while in office... Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was present at three assassinations: his father's, President Garfield's in 1881 and President McKinley's in 1901... A famous (and enormous) biography of Lincoln was written by 20th-century author Carl Sandburg... Lincoln was the 16th president.\n\n.......if that's not enough visit http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
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Quite a subjective question, but one genuinely good attempt at answering the  question is Michael Hart's 'The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History'.\nHe ranks Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as No.1.
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I would have to go with FDR.  Apparently many people of his time agreed with me, because he is the only President to have been elected four times. He served just over 12 years.  He brought the country out of depression, creating many jobs, such as the TVA and the CCC (Tennessee Valley Authority and Civilian Conservation Corps.) He was a rich man who was truly for the poor people. I think he is just about the greatest President we have ever had, with the possible exception of the first George.\n\nOutside of Presidents, I would have to say Martin Luther King.  He was such a great man.  He worked so hard to establish civil rights and to work out good relations between the races.  I think the worst thing that ever happened to race relations in this country was his assassination.
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Often credited with being the first  "modern president". Rough Riders. Panama Canal. Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the war between Russia and Japan. One of America's greatest presidents.
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Some of the best US Presidents where Religious.\n\nJohn Quincy Adams (1825-29):\n"The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world . . . and I say to you, 'Search the Scriptures.'"\n\nAndrew Jackson (1829-37) \n"Sir, that Book is the Rock on which our Republic rests!"\n\nAbraham Lincoln (1861-1865) \n"I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon reason that you can and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man."
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Probably George Washington.  He inhereted a country that was pretty much going to Hell in a handbasket and set it on the path to become what would become arguably the greatest country in the history of mankind.  I don't think George Bush, Bill Clinton or George Bush Sr. should be listed as answers here because insufficient time has really passed for their legacies (and the full consequences of their decisions) to be assessed.
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, and the first from the Republican Party, on March 4th, 1861. He was assasinated shortly after being re-elected to a second term and died on April 15, 1865 from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C
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#1 is Abraham Lincoln. He proclaimed the Tthanksgiving be a national Hoilday. His most famous work was signing the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862\n\n#2 would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt.He was a victim of Polio yet he still influenced the American people tremendouly. He made a good dicision to declare war on Japan and he was the only president to serve 4 terms\n\n#3 George Washington. He was a great leader and general in the Revolutionary War.He was aslo a prime mover in the steps leading to the constitutional Convention
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John C. Frémont PathMAKER of the West\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_lincoln\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=abraham+lincoln+bio&btnG=Google+Search\nI would start there, but the second one requires some effort.