Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States
16th President of the United States, Republican
Abraham Lincoln
Term: Mar 4, 1861 – Apr 15, 1865
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination on April 15, 1865. He led the Union through the Civil War, the deadliest conflict in American history, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free and set the course for the abolition of slavery nationwide through the Thirteenth Amendment. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, days after the Confederate surrender, and died the following morning.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”