Short Biography, Paragraph of “Abraham Lincoln” short paragraph for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduate Classes

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, (1809-65). US statesman; 16th president of the US. Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, he was entirely self-educated. After working as a lawyer, he sat in Congress and later joined the new Republican party (1856). In 1860 he was elected president on a anti-slavery ticket. His term of office was occupied  by the civil war against the Southern slave states that had withdrawn from the Union following his 266 election. Just five days after the Union victory, he was shot at Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC, by the little-known actor John Wilkes Booth, who wished to avenge the defeat of the South. Lincoln died in hospital the next day and was subsequently regarded as both a martyr and a hero.

 

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