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Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...
Biographers have rejected numerous rumors about Lincoln's paternity. According to historian William E. Barton, one of these rumors began circulating in 1861 "in various forms in several sections of the South" that Lincoln's biological father was Abraham Enloe, a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, who died in that same year.
Abraham Lincoln: Feb 12, 1809: 52 years, 20 days Mar 4, 1861: 56 years, 62 days Apr 15, 1865: 0 days [b] Apr 15, 1865: 56 years, 62 days 17 Andrew Johnson: Dec 29, 1808: 56 years, 107 days Apr 15, 1865: 60 years, 65 days Mar 4, 1869: 6 years, 149 days Jul 31, 1875: 66 years, 214 days 18 Ulysses S. Grant: Apr 27, 1822: 46 years, 311 days Mar 4, 1869
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [12]
Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency.
At 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln breathed for the last time. The 16th President of the United States had unintentionally ended his administration - an administration that had taken ...
In “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” director Shaun Peterson makes a compelling case that Honest Abe was queer. The 102-minute doc features 20 Lincoln scholars and ...