Abraham Lincoln

By: Garrett Lamartina

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

• Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.

• He was President 1861-1865. In 1865 he was assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth.

• Booth was eventually found hiding in a farmhouse in Virginia. The soldiers cornered him and shot him in the neck.

Family and While in Office

• Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President’s were Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.

• Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln. Children: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, and Tad Lincoln.

More about him

• He was the president of the United States. There is a statue in memory of him in Washington D.C. Its called the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. I’ve Been there.

• He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation to stop slavery. John Wilkes Booth was with the South he wanted slavery to be so he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Where was Abraham Lincoln Born and where did he die?

• Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky.

• He died April 15, 1865 in Washington D.C.