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The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born in 1809. Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky. Abraham was a very smart child; with his parents not being able to read or write, Lincoln taught himself what he needed. President Lincoln didn’t have a easy life growing up, his father had a very ill attitude towards him and it is said that he would not visit his father after he left home; this also lead to Lincoln not being present at his father’s funeral. A company organized in April of 1832, the Sangamon County Rifles; is where Abraham volunteered to enter the Black Hawk War where he was chosen as captain and served until May 27th of the same year.In 1837 Lincoln started practicing law, which is an area of life he excelled in. In …show more content…

After the death of his mother, him and his father; and his stepmother his family moved to a place named Decatur in Illinois. Although Lincoln was young, he had a reasonable amount of responsibilities ranging from helping his father plant crops and building log cabins with his father. He even had to helped his father clear off land. Once in Illinois, Abraham left to go live a life of his own. After leaving, he and some friends built a flatboat and took it to New Orleans, this is where Lincoln witnessed what slavery was like in the south. Upon his return to Illinois, he was elected to the senate in Illinois. In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd and in the same year he started his law firm in which he had major success even though he was a successful lawyer, Lincoln did not obtain a college or law degree. Although he was a very successful Lawyer, President Lincoln wanted to be be a politician. After the birth of his son Eddie was born President Lincoln was them elected to the house of representatives

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