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Out of all of the Pres­i­dents that have occu­pied the grounds of the White House and gov­erned the soil of the United States, no other Pres­i­dent has attained so much atten­tion towards his strengths while in office than Abra­ham Lincoln.

More promi­nent the fact that he is only one of three Pres­i­dents that were assas­i­nated, respect­fully; William McKin­ley (1897−1901) and John F. Kennedy (1961−1963) being the other two Pres­i­dents that have suc­cumbed to such tragedies.

I’ve always had a cer­tain inter­est towards this man whom I never knew but always admired. So much in fact I’ve learned as much about his life as I could and in honor of his birth­day today, here is a snip­pet from Biography.com;

“Six­teenth pres­i­dent of the United States and pres­i­dent dur­ing the Civil War. Born Feb­ru­ary 12, 1809, in a log cabin on a farm in Hardin County, Ken­tucky. His father had come with his par­ents from Vir­ginia and had grown to man­hood on the Ken­tucky fron­tier. He had evi­dently become mod­er­ately suc­cess­ful as a farmer and car­pen­ter, for in 1803 he was able to pay ?118 for a farm near Eliz­a­beth­town. Three years later he mar­ried Nancy Hanks, described as “intel­li­gent, deeply reli­gious, kindly, and affec­tion­ate,” but as “illit­er­ate” as him­self. Of her fam­ily and back­ground lit­tle is known.”

- read the rest of Lincoln’s story at Biography.com