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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1970.35.68
Abraham Lincoln
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1970.35.68

Abraham Lincoln

American, 1809 - 1865
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Abraham Lincoln (b. Feb. 12, 1809-d. Apr. 15, 1865) was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the sixteenth president of the United States, leading the Union during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. He was the author of Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the Gettysburg Address (1863). He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, and died the next day.
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