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Abraham Lincoln

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)

  • Fame90.0
  • Momentum0.2
  • Global rank#64
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame90.0
  • Momentum0.2
  • Global rank#64
  • United States rank#18
  • Politicians rank#18
  • Wikipedia439.9K
Lived 1809–1865, aged 56United States
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  • Global rank
    #64
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  • Era
    1809–1865
    Aged 56
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

The president who held a fracturing country together through its bloodiest war, then signed the order that ended slavery — and was shot five days after victory.

Biography

About

Born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, Lincoln clawed his way through frontier poverty to become a self-taught lawyer and Illinois legislator. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which threatened to spread slavery into new territories, pulled him into the Republican Party; by 1858 his debates with Stephen A. Douglas had made him a national voice. His 1860 presidential win triggered immediate secession by slave states and the formation of the Confederacy. A month into his presidency, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. Lincoln spent four years managing a fractious coalition, suspending habeas…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
said
Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will.
— Speech of the Sub-Treasury (1839), Collected Works 1:178-9
Abraham Lincoln
said
I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
— Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838), Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119
Abraham Lincoln
said
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?
— The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions : Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (27 January 1838)
Abraham Lincoln
said
Whatever Spiteful fools may Say — Each jealous, ranting yelper — No woman ever played the whore Unless She had a man to help her.
— A stanza of Lincoln's "On Seduction" (1837-39) as conveyed by James H. Matheny (1865 or 1866)
Abraham Lincoln
said
They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.
— Protest entered, pages 817-818 of the House Journal, March 3, by Lincoln with Dan Stone, another representative of Sangomon, briefly
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Historical39.8
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Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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#64
Country rank
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Category rank
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