Hodgenville, 1809 - Washington, 1865, strong opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, was elected president in late 1860 thanks to the defeat of the secessionists in the Civil War, he introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of. slavery, by issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Lincoln closely supervised the outcome of the war to its end, and with his brilliant rhetoric successfully mobilized public opinion. The Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. After the war, he established a rapid reconstruction, through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first assassination in the U.S.