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- by: Russell Freedman
- Presented by: Edgar Espinoza
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- Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12,1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky.
- He only had one sister.
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- Abraham Lincoln was a poor backwoods farm boy.
- Abraham went to work as a ferryman’s helper on the Ohio River.
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- In 1834 Lincoln ran for the Illinois State Legislature for a 2nd
time and won. He was paid three dollars a day. Lincoln decided to study
law on his own. He studied law for 3 years before passing the bar. He
worked as a junior partner in John Todd start’s law office.
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- Lincoln married Mary Owens on November4,1842. They had three sons…
Eddie, Willie, and Thomas.
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- Lincoln continued in politics. November 6,1860 he ran for President. He
received 86,600 and carried every northern state.
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- President Lincoln was at the Ford Theater watching the play “Our
American Cousin” when actor John Wilkes booth fired the fatal shot
.President Lincoln died at 7:22 A.M. on April,15.
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