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    Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, , in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in , they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By , Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his nation in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles. In , Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in )

    Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumula

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    Abraham Lincoln

    President of the United States from to

    For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation).

    "President Lincoln" redirects here. For the troopship, see USS President Lincoln.

    Abraham Lincoln

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    In office
    March 4, &#;– April 15,
    Vice President
    Preceded byJames Buchanan
    Succeeded byAndrew Johnson
    In office
    March 4, &#;– March 3,
    Preceded byJohn Henry
    Succeeded byThomas L. Harris
    In office
    December 1, &#;– December 4,
    Preceded byAchilles Morris
    Born()February 12,
    Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.
    DiedApril 15, () (aged&#;56)
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Manner&#;of&#;deathAssassination by gunshot
    Resting placeLincoln Tomb
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    Height6&#;ft 4&#;in (&#;cm)[1]
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    Abraham Lincoln's Childhood and Early Life

    Lincoln was born on February 12, , to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His family moved to southern Indiana in Lincoln’s formal schooling was limited to three brief periods in local schools, as he had to work constantly to support his family.

    In , his family moved to Macon County in southern Illinois, and Lincoln got a job working on a river flatboat hauling freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. After settling in the town of New Salem, Illinois, where he worked as a shopkeeper and a postmaster, Lincoln became involved in local politics as a supporter of the Whig Party, winning election to the Illinois state legislature in

    Like his Whig heroes Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, Lincoln opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, and had a grand vision of the expanding United States, with a focus on commerce and cities rather than agriculture.

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