Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln

Interesting Facts about Abraham Lincoln

• In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd and the couple had four sons, Robert, Edward, William and Thomas. Lincoln shared special relationships with Ann Rutledge, Mary Owens before he got engaged to Mary Todd.
  
  
• was the 16th President of the United States. In the 1860 presidential elections which he won, Lincoln did not campaign on-road, instead he resorted to the distribution of posters, leaflets and newspaper editorials.
  
  
• Lincoln closely supervised the selection of top generals, during the. He was not only instrumental in defusing the Trent Affair with Britain in 1861, but also integrated the border slave states within the Union very successfully.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is one of the most quoted political speeches in history. It marked the end of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War. The speech was made on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg,
  
  
• Edwin Booth, the older brother of John Wilkes Booth who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, had actually saved the life of Robert, one of Abraham Lincoln's sons. Edwin had pulled Robert to safety when he fell into the space between an approaching train and the platform in 1864, in Jersey City.

Fun Facts about Abraham Lincoln

• He was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. This made him the first US president from west of the Appalachian range.
  
  
• Lincoln's ancestry is mapped down to Samuel Lincoln. Samuel had come to in the 17th century, from
  
• Lincoln's education comprised only 18 months of schooling. Thereafter, he was self-educated and benefited a lot from his habit of reading.
  
  
• Lincoln could wrestle and was exceptionally skilled with an axe. But, he refrained fromand because of his love for animals.
  
  
• Lincoln relished lamb shanks, chicken casserole, and scalloped oysters.

Cool Facts on Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, on February 12, 1809. They were both uneducated farmers.
  
  
• He led the country through the r and not only preserved the Union, but also put an end to the social evil –. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, initiated the end of slavery in the United States.
  
  
• Before his presidential election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had served as a country lawyer, a state legislator in Illinois, a member of the House of Representatives and had campaigned twice for US Senate elections.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln managed his own presidential re-election in 1864.
  
  
• He is ranked by scholars and historians from all over the world as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.

Unknown Facts about Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln was very close to his step-mother Sarah Bush Johnston, but distant from his father. His mother died of 'milk sickness', when Abraham was nine years old.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln was always fascinated with machines and held the patent for a device that was created for keeping shipping vessels buoyant over shoals. The patent number was 6469, and it was issued on May 22, 1849.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln came from a family that originally belonged to a Hardshell Baptist church. However, Abraham himself never ever joined any other church.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln had a dream about his own assassination, which he shared with his main bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon, days before the actual event.
  
  
• His made Lincoln the first American president to die in this manner. Abraham Lincoln died at the age of 56 and his mortal remains were buried at Springfield, Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln Trivia

1. Q: How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
   
   A: Abraham Lincoln was unusually tall. He was all of 6 feet and 4 inches.
   
   
2. Q: When did Abraham Lincoln become President?
   
   A: Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860. He won against Stephen A. Douglas – a Democrat, John C. Breckinridge – also a Democrat and John Bell – a member of the Constitutional Union Party. The victory made Abraham Lincoln the first Republican president of the US.