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for offer An original WWI poster ca. 1917,featuring ABRAHAM LINCOLN with text from the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ,and BUY LIBERTY BONDS at top Measures 20" x 30",in very good cond. Has printer name "AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIC CO.,NY" and number 12-A Guaranteed original Colors are vibrant and unfaded...has been stored flat out of light for the last hundred years Abraham Lincoln From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the American president. For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) . Abraham Lincoln Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln at age 54, 1863 16th President of the United States In office March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865 Vice President Hannibal Hamlin (1861–1865) Andrew Johnson (1865) Preceded by James Buchanan Succeeded by Andrew Johnson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois 's 7th district In office March 4, 1847 – March 4, 1849 Preceded by John Henry Succeeded by Thomas Harris Personal details Born ( 1809-02-12 )February 12, 1809 Hodgenville, Kentucky , U.S. Died April 15, 1865 (1865-04-15 ) (aged 56) Petersen House , Washington, D.C. , U.S. Resting place Lincoln's Tomb , Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield, Illinois Citizenship United States Political party Republican (1854–1865) National Union (1864–1865) Other politicalaffiliations Whig (Before 1854) Spouse( s) Mary Todd Children Robert Edward William Tad Profession Lawyer Signature Military service Service/branch Illinois Militia Years of service 1832 Rank Captain Battles/wars Black Hawk War Abraham Lincoln i /ˈ eɪ br ə hæ m ˈ lɪ ŋ kən / (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States , serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 . Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier , Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader , Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas . Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With almost no support in the South , Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860 . His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy . The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. Lincoln explained in his second inaugural address : "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort. His goal was now to reunite the nation. As the South was in a state of insurrection, Lincoln exercised his authority to suspend habeas corpus , arresting and temporarily detaining thousands of suspected secessionists without trial. Lincoln averted British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair in late 1861. His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , which finally freed all the slaves nationwide in December 1865. Lincoln closely s... read more

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