Abraham Lincoln
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Poet Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Holidays Independence Day
Biography
The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln worked as a lawyer and served in the Illinois General Assembly for eight years and in the House of Representatives for a year before winning the Republican nomination for president in 1860. As president during the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863. He was re-elected as president in 1864 and served until his . . .
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POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Epigram, Allusion
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