Top 15 Facts About Abraham Lincoln
by This is a list of the top interesting facts about about the 16th president Abraham Lincoln. I hope you enjoy the list!
15. Was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
14. He was the first president to be assassinated.
13. He created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency.
12. He was the tallest U.S president at 6ft 4 inches.
11. Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1804 at the Sinking Spring farm in Hardin County, Kentucky.
10. Lincoln only had 18 months of formal education.
9. He carried important papers in his stovepipe hat so he wouldn’t misplace them.
8. When Lincoln was elected president he was not even on the ballot of 10 Southern states and only won 2 of the 996 counties in the entire South.
7. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
6. Lincoln dreamed of his own death at least twice in the weeks leading up to his assignation.
5. Despite the fact that the marriage between Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln yielded 4 sons, there are no living heirs.
4. Lincoln really liked machines and gadgets. He liked to take them apart to see how they worked and try to put them together again.
3. Lincoln & Kennedy both were shot in the head with one bullet on a Friday.
2. Because he and his wife Mary had lost their children Edward and Willie at such young ages, they held seances in the White House trying to contact their dearly departed.
1. He wrote his own speeches, and it is said that his famous Gettysburg Address wasn’t even the best one.
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