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Read about the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln Biography. Also included are his life story and about the struggles he had in his life.
16th US President Abraham Lincoln Biography – Life Story and Struggle
Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February, 1809. He was the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hauks Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hauks were married on 12 June, 1806 in Washington County. They moved to Elizabeth Town, Kentucky. They became the parents of three children, Sarah, Abraham and Thomas, who died in infancy. His neighbours and his family members thought that Abraham was lazy as he avoided manual labour and mostly engaged in writing, ciphering, reading, writing poetry etc.
Abhraham Lincoln Schooling
Lincoln was largely self educated. His formal schooling was less than a year. During his youth he read and re-read, The King James Bible, Aesop’s Fables, Bunyan’s, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Defoe’s, Robinson Crusoe, Weems’s, The Life of Washington and Franklin’s Autobiography among others.
In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd and married on November 4th 1982, in the Springfield Mansion of Mary’s married sister. In 1844, they bought a house in Springfield near Lincoln’s law office. They had four children. Lincoln’s father in law and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders. Lincoln was close to the Todd and occasionally visted the Todd Estate, Lexington, along with family.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the US House of Representative where he served a two-year terms. Lincoln in collaboration with a politinist congressman, Josaua R Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia. He abandoned the bill when he failed to garner sufficient whig supporters. On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican-American war. Lincoln returned to practice law in the Springfield, handling every kind of business that could before a prairie lawyer.
Lincoln handled manu transportation cases in the midst of nation’s Western expansion particular the conflicts arising from the operation of Mier Barges under the many new rail-road bridges. Lincoln most notable criminal trial occured in 1858 when he defended William Duff Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Priston Metzker. The case is famous for Lincoln use of the fact extablished by the judicial notice in order to challenge the credibility of an eye witness. After opposing, witness testified seeing the crime in the moonlight. Lincoln produced farmers almanac showing the moon was at a low angle drastically reducing visibility. Based on this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted.
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Did you know about Life Story Of Abraham Lincoln and his Struggle?
Lincoln-Doughlas debates of 1858 is regarded as the most famous political debates in American history. Lincoln warn that the slave power was threatening the value of republicanism and accused Douglas of distorting the value of the founding fathers that all men are created equal.
The debate had an atmosphere of a prized fight and drew crowds in the thousands. Seeing the possibility of Lincoln’s win secessionist opinioned not to stay with the Union before he took office. On 20 December, 1860, South Carolina, took the lead of adopting an ordinance of secession by February 1st 1861, Florida, Mississipe, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana and Texas followed. Six of this states, adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a soverign nation, the Confiderate States of America. President Buchanan and President elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confideracy, declaring secession illegal. On 12 April 1861, Confiderate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter forcing them to surrender and war broke out.
On 15 April, Lincoln called on all the state to send detachment troops to recapture Fort’s protect Washington and preserve the Union. After the battle of Fort Sumter, Lincoln took control of the war and made strategy to put down the rebellion.
The emancipation proclamation issued on 22 Sep 1862 and put into effect on 1 January 1863 declared Free The Slaves in 10 states, not then under Union control. Lincoln then spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation. The abolision of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective.
All three million of them in Confiderate territory were freed with the great Union victory of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863 and the defeat of the Copperheads in Ohio election, in the fall. Lincoln maintained a strong party support redefined the war effect. In 272 words and 3 minutes Lincoln assorted “The nation was not born in 1789 but 1776, conceived in liberty and declared to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
While the war was being waged, Lincoln faced re-election in 1864. Lincoln was shrewed politician and brought all the men factions of the Republican party. The lag of military success wore heavily on the President’s re-election prospects and many feared that Lincoln would be defeated.
