Abraham Lincoln was in the United States in 1861 16th President. He in 1863 he issued the emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves forever within the Confederation.


He was born February 12, 1809 in Kentucky, U. S, and all his life sought to self-improvement. Five months before receiving the nomination from his party for the presidency, he sketched his life:

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, talentless families-second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was from a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals, as earlier in the forest. I grew up there,.... Of course, when I became of age, there are many things I knew. Still somehow, I could read, write and count ... but that was all."

His wife's name was Mary Todd. In their family were four boys, but only one lived to adulthood.

As President, Lincoln built the Republican party into a strong national organization. Next, he rallied most of the Northern Democrats to the Union cause.
Lincoln won the election in 1864. In his plans he wanted to be flexible and generous encourage southerners to be.
The spirit that guided him we can feel his Inaugural address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "feeding malice to none; with charity; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind the wounds of the nation.... "

April 14, 1865 , good Friday, Lincoln was assassinated in the Ford theatre in Washington.