Happy Birthday Mr. President!
On this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born. If you have never read a biography of this president, you should run to your local library, and spend the rest of the day curled up on the couch getting to know this man. Mr. Lincoln was president from 1861 until his death in 1865. He was a self-educated man, and it is worth noting that he was a Republican. It’s also worth noting that although his Gettysburg Address said that the United States was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”, his Emancipation Proclamation only declared slavery unlawful in the rebelling southern states.
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