Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States (1st Period)
- Born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky
- First President from the Republican Party
- Inauguration on March 1861
- Opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories
- Declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday
- Famous for his role in ending slavery in the US with the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation
- Died on April 15, 1865
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's Assassination