Abraham Lincoln Research Paper Thesis

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Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. He was the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks who were farmers. Lincoln struggled for a living and for learning. He acquires enough literacy to sign his name, but he made efforts to attain knowledge while he worked as a carpenter and farmer on the Kentucky frontier. In 1806, he married Marry Todd and they had four boys and only one who lived to maturity. He served as a soldier in the Black Hawk War, taught himself law, and held a seat in the Illinois state legislature as a Whig politician. He stated his opposition against the Mexican-American War. In 1858, he ran against Stephen A. Douglass for Senator. He lost the election, but debating