Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the tumultuous period of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and worked to end slavery, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and supporting the Thirteenth Amendment. His assassination on 14 April 1865 only cemented his status as a martyr for liberty and today, he is often remembered as one of th…
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