Abraham Lincoln
The topic that I have chosen for this essay is Abraham Lincoln. He is the sixteenth president of United States of America. I chose this topic because according to the things he has done for this nation he is one of the greatest presidents America could have ever had. I think that this president is one of the greatest people in the American history and will be remembered by all the people in this country. He was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents were both were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families. Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, after that spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. After all those rough years, he got into politics. Lincoln ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois legislature in 1832. Two years later, he was elected to the lower house for the first of four successive terms (until 1841) as a Whig.
political appearance in the Northeast when he addressed a rally at the Cooper Union in New York. He was now sufficiently well known to be a presidential candidate. At the Republican national convention in Chicago in May, William H. Seward was the leading candidate. Seward, however, had qualities that made him undesirable in the critical. As a result Lincoln won the nomination by being the second choice of the majority. instead to Springfield and the law. Lincoln "was losing interest in politics" when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was On March 4, 1861, Lincoln was sworn in as president of the United States of America. On Apr. 12, 1861, South Carolina fired on the fort, and the Civil War began. As a commander in chief Lincoln was soon noted for vigorous measures, sometimes at odds with the Constitution and often at odds with the ideas of his military commanders. After a period of initial support and enthusiasm for George B. McClellan, Lincoln's conflicts with that Democratic general helped to turn the latter into his presidential rival in 1864. Famed for his clemency for court-marshaled sol
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