BIOGRAPHY ABRAHAM LINCOLN

LIFE
He was born on February 12, 1809 on a farm located near the city of Hodgenville, in
LaRue County the current state of Kentucky, a place that is now a national historic
park. His parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, were born in Virginia and as many
pioneer farmers had moved west. The Lincoln family came from England. In 1637,
Samuel Lincoln, apprentice weaver, left Britain and moved to North America, settling
in Hingham, Massachusetts. Later, the Lincolns were established in New Jersey,
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and finally to Kentucky, where Thomas Lincoln, at twenty-eight,
married Nancy Hanks, on June 12, 1806, when Nancy had twenty-two old.
ADULTHOOD
Lincoln had turbulent mood swings alternating between grandiosity and depression,
which greatly moderated after his marriage to Mary Todd Lincoln in 1842. From this
union were born four children, all boys. One of them died as a child before his father
arrived at the White House. Another son also died very young his father being
president. And the smallest died six years after the death of Abraham. The eldest son
Robert Todd Lincoln lived up to adult and had descendants.
Lincoln was a member of the Whig Party of the United States at the beginning of his
political career; He served four terms in the Illinois State Legislature. He was elected
Congressman (MP) to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress for
the 7th Congressional District of the State of Illinois for the period from March 4, 1847
to March 4, 1849. Due to his opposition to US intervention in Mexico Lincoln had to
resign to nominate for re-election, leaving the vacancy for other candidates of his
party in the midterm elections, which are held two years later, or earlier, as you see,
general. He had a successful law practice in Illinois both before and after his time in the
House of Representatives.
FAILED VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
When the first National Convention of the Republican Party met in Philadelphia,
between 17 and June 19, 1856, Lincoln was nominated to be the candidate for Vice
President of the United States by the Republican Party in the presidential elections of
that year. After the Convention elect John C. Frémont as the Republican presidential
candidate, delegates passed to deal with the election of the vice-presidential
candidate; a group of delegates nominated Lincoln, who would have to face the other
internal candidates. Finally Lincoln was defeated in the voting of the Convention by
William L. Dayton, a former senator to the US Congress for New Jersey, which thus
became the first vice presidential candidate in the history of the Republican Party, but
in elections presidential integrated by Frémont and Dayton formula was defeated by
Democrats. The failed nomination of Lincoln however reinforced its reputation.
PRESIDENCY
And as president-elect, he survived an assassination attempt in Baltimore (Maryland),
and February 23, 1861 arrived secretly and in disguise to Washington. Lincoln was
ridiculed by the South for this seemingly cowardly act, but the security efforts could be
prudent. At Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, the Turners were the bodyguard
of Lincoln, and an important garrison of Union troops was always present, ready to
protect the president and the capital of a rebel invasion.
The objectives of his presidency were his party, the Republican, and that was the great
heir of the Whig party, which had fallen into disgrace. Consisted that Henry Clay had
called "American System," and that was summed up in three points: A protectionist
customs policy, "internal improvements", ie, public investment in infrastructure, and
finally an inflationary banking policy.
THE CIVIL WAR

The American Civil War (1861-1865), who became the bloodiest conflict on the continent
since the military expeditions of Napoleon, caused thousands of deaths on both sides of
the Mason-Dixon line separating the former allies north southern compatriots. President
Abraham Lincoln tried to mediate between the states of North and South, and ended up
entering a war that tried to avoid until the end. The origin were disputes over the issue of
slavery, since the southern states did not want to give up this ancient privilege. Although
Lincoln was a staunch opponent of repression, he ended up being more important to him
cohesion of the Union that the abolition of slavery.

MURDER

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln took place on April 14, 1865 around 22:25 in
Washington D. C., when the American Civil War came to an end. While initially it survived
the shooting wounds were so serious that died the next day at 7:22. The incident occurred
five days after the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee
surrendered his troops to General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln
was the first US president to be assassinated, one as thirty years earlier, in 1835, had
failed attempted murder of Andrew Jackson.

The attack was planned and carried out by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes
Booth cause, as part of a larger conspiracy to gather the remaining Confederate troops to
continue fighting. Booth recruited several accomplices, David Herold, Lewis Powell (also
called Lewis Payne) and George Atzerodt, who commissioned the murder of Secretary of
State William H. Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson. With this triple murder,
Booth hoped to create chaos and overthrow the government of the Union. The sixteenth
US president Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head while attending the representation of
Our American Cousin piece of Tom Taylor, Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, with his wife
and two guests.