About Abraham Lincoln
- He was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six.
- His home state is Illinois.
- His party was Republican and he was president for four years when he was assassinated.
- His vice presidents where Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.
- He was preceded by James Buchanan and succeeded by Andrew Johnson.
- His wife was called Mary Todd Lincoln, who was brought up in a very wealthy family.
- Mary’s parents disagreed with her marrying Abraham because he had a poor background.
- Abraham had four children, Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln. Only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood.
- Abraham was an unaffiliated Christian as he never officially acquired church membership.
- He created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency.
- He was the first president to be assassinated.
- He had deep depression, even though he would frequently tell stories and jokes to friends and family.
- He was the tallest president at 6'4".
- He patented a system to alter buoyancy of steamboats in 1849.
- His birth mother died from milk sickness.
- His father remarried a widow, and Abraham was very close to his step mother.
- He ran a store in New Salem.
- Even though he was strong, a talented wrestler, and proficient with an axe, Lincoln disliked killing and harming animals, even for food.
- Lincoln proposed to Mary just one year after meeting her in Springfield 1839.
- He was the first president to have a beard.
- One week before his death, he had a dream of someone crying in the White House. When he found the room, he looked in and asked a gentleman who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin he saw his own face.