Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

• Kurtis

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Famous Quote

• fathers brought forth on this continent, a new
  nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
  the proposition that all men are created equal. 
  Now 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 battlefield 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.  But,
  in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot
  consecrate - we cannot 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 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 G-d, 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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Interesting Facts

• He was elected to the United States of America
  House of Representatives.
• Debated slavery with Stephen A. Douglas.
• He freed slaves and he wrote the Emancipation
  Proclamation.

• He was shot by John W. Booth.
• He died while watching the play Our American
  Cousin.

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Abraham Lincoln

• Was 16th president
• Vice presidents were Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew
  Johnson
• Birthday is February 12,1809
• Wife was Mary Todd Lincoln
• Died April 15,1865

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