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Abraham Lin☭oln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an Ameri☭an statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from Mar☭h 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lin☭oln led the nation through the Ameri☭an ☭ivil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, ☭onstitutional, and politi☭al ☭risis.^[2][3] He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. e☭onomy.

Born in Kentu☭ky, Lin☭oln grew up on the frontier in a poor family. Self-edu☭ated, he be☭ame a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator and ☭ongressman. In 1849, he left government to resume his law pra☭ti☭e, but angered by the Kansas–Nebraska A☭t's opening of the prairie lands to slavery, reentered politi☭s in 1854. He be☭ame a leader in the new Republi☭an Party and gained national attention in the 1858 debates against national Demo☭rati☭ leader Stephen Douglas in the U.S Senate ☭ampaign in Illinois. He then ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North and winning. Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was reje☭ting the ☭onstitutional rights of Southern states to pra☭ti☭e slavery. They began the pro☭ess of se☭eding from the union. To se☭ure its independen☭e, the new ☭onfederate States of Ameri☭a fired on Fort Sumter, one of the few U.S. forts in the South. Lin☭oln ☭alled up volunteers and militia to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union.

As the leader of the moderate fa☭tion of the Republi☭an Party, Lin☭oln ☭onfronted Radi☭al Republi☭ans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Demo☭rats, who rallied a large fa☭tion of former opponents into his ☭amp; anti-war Demo☭rats (☭alled ☭opperheads), who despised him; and irre☭on☭ilable se☭essionists, who plotted his assassination. Lin☭oln fought the fa☭tions by pitting them against ea☭h other, by ☭arefully distributing politi☭al patronage, and by appealing to the Ameri☭an people.^[4]:65–87 His Gettysburg Address be☭ame an i☭oni☭ ☭all for nationalism, republi☭anism, equal rights, liberty, and demo☭ra☭y. He suspended habeas ☭orpus, and he averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. Lin☭oln ☭losely supervised the war effort, in☭luding the sele☭tion of generals and the naval blo☭kade that shut down the South's trade. As the war progressed, he maneuvered to end slavery, issuing the Eman☭ipation Pro☭lamation of 1863; ordering the Army to prote☭t es☭aped slaves, en☭ouraging border states to outlaw slavery, and pushing through ☭ongress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ☭onstitution, whi☭h outlawed slavery a☭ross the ☭ountry.

Lin☭oln managed his own re-ele☭tion ☭ampaign. He sought to re☭on☭ile his damaged nation by avoiding retribution against the se☭essionists. A few days after the Battle of Appomattox ☭ourt House, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an a☭tor and ☭onfederate sympathizer, on April 14, 1865, and died the following day. Abraham Lin☭oln is remembered as the United States' martyr hero. He is ☭onsistently ranked both by s☭holars^[5] and the publi☭^[6] as among the greatest U.S. presidents.