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  2. Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    [i] In Lincoln's response to Scripps, he summed up his early life in a quote from Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, as "the short and simple annals of the poor." [ 27 ] Additional details of Lincoln's early life appeared after his death in 1865, when William Herndon began collecting letters and interviews from Lincoln's ...

  3. Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

  4. 37th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 16 presidents who grew up in surprisingly humble homes - AOL

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  6. Grace Bedell - Wikipedia

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    Grace Greenwood Billings (née Bedell; November 4, 1848 – November 2, 1936) was an American woman, notable as a person whose correspondence, at the age of eleven, encouraged Republican Party nominee and future president Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Lincoln later met with Bedell during his inaugural journey in February 1861.

  7. The Richest and Poorest US Presidents - AOL

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    In “Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln,” author Harry E. Pratt put the value of Lincoln’s estate at $85,000 in 1865, or $ 1,355,400.61 in today’s money. Richard Nixon Net Worth: $6.03 ...

  8. Mary Todd Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Mary Lincoln for the Ages. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-08093-3675-3. Daniel Mark Epstein, The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (Ballantine Books, 2008) King, C.J. Four Marys and a Jessie: The Story of the Lincoln Women (Hildene, 2015) McDermott, Stacy Pratt (2015). Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern ...

  9. Has the number of women in Congress hit a ceiling? - AOL

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    In the House, the number of women serving is set to decrease (albeit slightly) for the first time since the 102nd Congress, which began in 1991.