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Lincoln, who was a former Whig congressman, emerged as a major Republican presidential candidate following his narrow loss to Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in the 1858 Senate election in Illinois. [1] Though he lacked the broad support that Republican Senator William H. Seward of New York had, Lincoln believed that he could emerge as the ...
His children, including eight-year-old Thomas, Abraham's father, witnessed the attack. [7] [c] Thomas then worked at odd jobs in Kentucky and Tennessee before the family settled in Hardin County, Kentucky, in the early 1800s. [7] Lincoln's mother Nancy Lincoln is widely assumed to be the daughter of Lucy Hanks. [9]
November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet. December 20 – South Carolina secedes from the Union
United States Senate election (Illinois), 1858 – Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party candidate and ran against incumbent Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. Stephen Douglas remained Senator, but the debates between the two propelled the popularity of Lincoln and acquired for him a national reputation, which helped him to be chosen ...
While the 16th president delivered many historic speeches throughout his presidency, the Gettysburg Address is arguably the most famous of Lincoln's oratory remarks. RELATED: President Abraham Lincoln
During Abraham Lincoln's presidency, anyone could come to the White House and see him. “Some only wanted comfort in a terrible time, and that he freely gave," James B. Conroy wrote in his book ...
March 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated President of the United States. April 12–14, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter, Civil War began. April 19, 1861: Union blockade of the South begins at Fort Monroe, Virginia. [4] April 27, 1861: President Lincoln suspends habeas corpus from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia [5] and called up 75,000 militia.
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