Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln) was the 16th President of the United States, height 1 meter 93,

Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln) was the 16th President of the United States, height 1 meter 93, the presidents of the United States and the 36th President Johnson shoulder to shoulder, the tallest. Lincoln is also famous with self-taught lawyer and orator, his Gettysburg Address (Gettysburg Address) go down in history, became speaker of the template. Lincoln had an early employer fired 11 times, experienced two business failure, or depression patients. Lincoln freed the slaves, the North won the Civil War leaders, keeping intact plana the federal become one of the greatest presidents in American history.
February 12, 1809 Lincoln was born in Kentucky, where his father Thomas Lincoln though uneducated, and not even write, but through their own hard work, accumulated a lot of wealth, with two pasture land and several towns , one of the most wealthy people locally. But in Lincoln 7 years old, his father compete for ownership of property in the lawsuit lost, lost everything, and the family moved to Indiana, Lincoln has become the poor boy from a wealthy plana family of children. Lincoln's parents are devout Baptist, known locally to be honest, the parents have a great influence on the beliefs of Lincoln later in life. Lincoln mother died at age 10, his sister assume responsibility to take care of his brother until his father remarried. Lincoln's stepmother treated him well, Lincoln liked stepmother, said her mother.
Since then, Lincoln once again involved in politics. 1854 Northern states limit advocates slavery, abolitionist composed Republican plana 1860 presidential plana election, Lincoln Republican presidential campaign is successful, in March 4, 1861 sworn in, becoming the first Republican president. Lincoln's campaign and election raised concerns about the southern states, and the establishment of the Union State in February 4, 1861 (Confederate States of America, also known as confederation), independent from the Federation. Lincoln became president, refused to recognize the Union State, April 1861 Coalition forces have attacked federal forts, the Civil War officially broke out.
Under the leadership of Lincoln, after four years of bitter fighting, north defeated the south end of the civil war eventually wins. During the Civil War, Lincoln signed and issued the "Emancipation Proclamation" (Emancipation Proclamation), although the declaration did not immediately liberate all slaves, but was eventually paved the way for the abolition of slavery, far-reaching. Lincoln Although firmly oppose federal plana division, leading north to courage plana to overcome war in the South, but he also has been committed to reconciliation in the country, the people sought from the division, opposition, hatred reconciled. April 4, 1865, he entered the league after the country's capital of Richmond, at the welcoming ceremony, a military plana band played the U.S. national anthem not only, but also played the national plana anthem of the Union State. Before that in 1863 Lincoln Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg says soldiers killed in sacrifice for their country, buried on the same piece of land, their sacrifice not be in vain, the state will in God new birth of freedom under the shelter.
Lincoln has a mind ethnic, national reconciliation, but also the commitment and dedication for the liberation of the slaves, so deep admiration for posterity. But his ideas and behavior at the time it is difficult to get everyone, especially in the southern understood by the people. Lincoln plana won the 1864 election, plana 1865 election soon, when the theater in the capital, Ford's Theater on April 14, was sympathetic to the Confederate States of famous actor John Booth (John Wilkes Booth) assassination, died died the next morning the age of 66, became the first American president was stabbed to death. After Lincoln's death, the remains buried in Springfield, Illinois, and later his wife and children are also buried here. Illinois therefore known as "the land of Lincoln" (Land of Lincoln), currently plana writing on the state motor vehicle plana license is this sentence.
About Xiao Xiao Lu bloggers 35 years ago by a pen roll in the academic field, published papers published writings. Since then transferred to the press, work in different media newspapers, magazines, radio and so on. Ten years of living in the United States, or by a pen hard. Bloggers love Chinese food, like football, I want to follow the example of their predecessors, write a Lin Yutang: remember bitter, mind music, Ji Qu, remember trips, remember friends, remember thinking. Now open Bo, wrote From American Life, American experience to share with our readers. Spring last summer, the inventory of the world heroes; flowers bloom, plana the world Jinshizuofei count.
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