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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and attorney who filled in as the sixteenth leader of the United States from 1861 until his death in April 1865. Lincoln drove the country through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its most noteworthy good, sacred, and political emergency.

Born: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States

Assassinated: April 15, 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States