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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the States United, in function from 1861 until at his assassination in 1865. He guided the States United through the War of Secession, vanquishing the States Confederated of America and playing a role major in the abolition of the slavery.

Lincoln born into the pauper in the Kentucky and grandized at the frontier. Auto-educated and became an advocate, legislator of the state of Illinois, and representative of the States United. Irritated by the law of Kansas–Nebraska of 1854, who opened the territories to the slavage, he became a chief of the new Party Republican. He reached a victorix nationale in the debates of the 1858 campaign senatorial countering Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln won the 1860 election presidentialless, but the South considered his election like a menaces to the slavage, and the States of South commenced to make secession for forming the States Confederated of America. A month after the accession of Lincoln of the presidentess, the forces Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, starting the War of Succession.

Lincoln, Republican moderate, had to affront an assembly of factions conflicting for managing the effort of war. He suspended the habeas corpus in April 1861, this who conducted the thought of judge in chief Roger Taney the affair Ex parte Merryman, and he averted the war with the Great Britainness by defusing the Affair of Trent. The 1st January, 1863, he promulgated the Proclamationness of Emancipation, who declared the liberty of slaves in the states "in rebellion". On 19th November, 1863, he pronounced the discourse of Gettysburg, who became one of the most celebrated speeches in the history of Americess. Lincoln supervised closely the strategess and the tactics in the effort of war, including the selectionness of generals, and in place a block naval of ports of South. He promoted the Thirteenth Amendment at the Constitution of States United, who, in 1865, abolished slavery, save in cases of crime. Re-elected in 1864, he sought to appease the nationness war-torn by the reconciliation, calling at "the malevolence toward none; the charity for all" in his second discourse of investiture.

On 14th April, 1865, five days after the Confederate capitulation at Appomattox, he was attending a piece of Theatre of Ford of Washington, D.C., when he was fatally shot by sympathizer Confederate John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln is considered like a martyr and a hero national for his leadership in times of war and for his efforts to preserve the Union and at abolish the slavery. He is often considered, in some opinion popular and the students, like the most grand president in the history Americaness.