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Abraham Lincoln February 12, — April 15, was an American politician.

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He was the 16th President of the United States. He was president from to , during the American Civil War. Just five days after most of the Confederate forces had surrendered and the war was ending, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln because he believed Lincoln was a tyrant. Lincoln was the first president of the United States to be assassinated.

He has been remembered as the "Great Emancipator" because he worked to end slavery in the United States. His family was poor. Abraham had one brother and one sister. His brother died in childhood. Lincoln grew up in a small log cabin , with just one room inside. Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln's father, who was a religious Baptist , refused to own any slaves.