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Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500
(202) 222-2222 | abe@lincoln.com
CAREER SUMMARY
Visionary leader and masterful politician, widely regarded as the greatest American president. Served as the 16th President of the United States, guiding the country through the Civil War, saving the Union and freeing slaves while in office.
PRESIDENT, 1861-1865
US Office of the President, Washington, DC
- Served as the first Republican Party president and built the Republican Party into a powerful national organization.
- Defended and preserved the unity of the United States by defeating the secessionist Confederacy in the Civil War, and instituted a formal Reconstruction Plan to reunite the nation after the war.
- Supervised all aspects of the war effort and selected top generals (including Ulysses S. Grant) to lead military campaigns.
- Issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing slaves within the Confederacy. Endorsed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which totally abolished slavery.
- Delivered the Gettysburg Address, the most famous oration in American history.
- Signed landmark legislation, including the National Banking Act (establishing a national currency and supporting a national banking network), legislation that protected American industry and a bill that chartered the first transcontinental railroad.
- Supported the Federal Homestead Law (1862), which allowed poor people in the east to acquire land in the west.
- Won a landslide reelection in 1864.
ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1836-1861
Self-Employed, Springfield, IL
- Prepared cases for federal courts, the Illinois Supreme Court and the state’s Eighth Judicial Circuit. Admitted to practice in United States Circuit Court in 1839.
- Served a term as a member of the US House of Representatives.
- Joined the Republican Party in 1856 and gained national attention by challenging Stephen A. Douglas to a series of debates in 1858.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- Received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Princeton University (1864)
Additional honorary degrees:
- Columbia (1861)
- Knox College (1860)
Early Career
Early political career highlights include a campaign for the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party in 1832. Spent eight years in the Illinois legislature (1834-1842). Additional experience includes farm work, rail splitting, grocery store management, surveyor and village postmaster.
Patent
Only US president to own a patent, granted in 1849 for device to lift boats over shoals.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..." -- Second Inaugural Address, 3/4/1865
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." -- Gettysburg Address, 11/19/1863
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." -- Inaugural Address, 3/4/1861
"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." -- Address in Independence Hall, 2/22/1861