Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. Even though he grew up in a poor family, he became a lawyer. In 1842 he married Mary Todd and they got 4 children, all of them boys.

In 1856 he affiliated to The Republicans Party, which was a new party at that time. He became the vice-president candidate and in 1861 he won the presidential election and became the 16^th President of United States. Abraham Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitution, military and moral crises – the American Civil War. He ended slavery when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We have read a speech of him from November 19, 1863 were he spoke about equality. The speech became one of the most famous speeches in the world.

Abraham Lincoln was killed in April 1865, and it was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning.