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| North |
| 1809-1865 |
| Kentucky |
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Often ranked as one of the nation's
greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic
historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days
after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican
lawyer from the backwoods who produced the most enduringly
elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising
election in 1860 helped spark the war itself, when South
Carolina seceded. His appearance at Gettysburg
in 1863 and his Second
Inaugural Address in 1865 provided two of his most
revered speeches. |
