Abraham Lincoln

POLITICAL PARTIES
Whig (thru 1854), Republican (1854-65), National Union (1864-65)

RELIGION
Deist

VITALS
6 ft 4 in (tallest) / 180 lbs

CAREER
1831-32 General storekeeper, tavern owner, New Salem, Illinois
1832-33 Captain, Illinois Militia, Black Hawk War
1833-34 Postmaster, New Salem
1834-42 Member, Illinois State Legislature
1835-36 County Surveyor, New Salem
1836-61 Practiced law in Springfield, Illinois
1847-49 U.S. Representative, Illinois
1854 Elected to Illinois State Legislature, declined
1856 Unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate against Stephen Douglas

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 6, 1860
Popular: Lincoln 1,866,452 (40%) Stephen Douglas 1,375,157 (29%) John Breckinridge 847,953 (18%) John Bell 590,631 (13%)
Electoral: Lincoln 180 Breckinridge 72 Bell 39 Douglas 12
November 8, 1864
Popular: Lincoln 2,218,388 (55%) George McClellan 1,812,807 (45%)
Electoral: Lincoln 212 McClellan 21

VICE PRESIDENTS
Hannibal Hamlin (1861-65), Andrew Johnson (1865)

ADMINISTRATION
Fort Sumter begins the Civil War, Battle of Bull Run (1861); Department of Agriculture, Monitor vs. Merrimack, Slavery abolished D.C. (1862), Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address (1863), Sherman’s March (1864); Thirteenth Amendment, Confederacy surrenders at Appomattox (1865)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Noah Swayne, Samuel Miller, Stephen Field, Salmon Chase (Chief)

NEW STATES
West Virginia (1863), Nevada (1864)

FIRST LADY
Mary Ann Todd (1861-65)

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George P.A. Healy, 1869.