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Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of America, was born on February 12 of 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky
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In 1830, when Abraham Lincoln was 21 years old, he migrated with his father and stepmother (Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln) and her children to Macon County, Illinois. After the discouragingly hard winter of 1830-31, the Lincolns started to return to Indiana, but stopped in Coles County, Illinois, where Abraham's parents lived out the rest of their lives.
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Abraham was elected to the Illinois Legislature in 1834, and was re-elected in 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1844.
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Abraham Lincoln officially became a lawyer on Sept. 9, 1836, when he received his law license. John Todd Stuart, strongly influenced Lincoln in his decision to become a lawyer.
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In 1842, struggling lawyer Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Anne Todd, a Kentucky native, at her sister’s home in Springfield, Illinois, despite her family's dislike for politics such as Abe
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In August of 1843 Abraham lincoln had his first of four children. Robert was the only child that lived up to adult-hood and he later onbecame a lawyer.
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Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of America at age 54 in the election of 1860 beating democrat Stephen Douglas.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. In a single stroke, it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free".
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January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.
