1. Childhood
Family
Military Service
Early Career
Notable Events
Accomplishments
Presidency
Trivia

2. Childhood born February 9, 1809, Kentucky Father: Thomas Lincoln
Mother: Nancy Hanks Lincoln
died when Lincoln was 9 years old
Stepmother: Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln
sister, brother, 2 step-sisters, step-brother
schooled “by littles”

3. Family Married: Mary Todd
November 4, 1842
Children: Robert Todd Lincoln ( ) Edward Baker Lincoln ( ) 4 William Wallace Lincoln ( ) 11 Thomas "Tad" Lincoln ( ) 18

4. Mary Todd Lincoln Vivacious, impulsive witty, sarcastic speech
5 feet 2 inches
clear blue eyes
long lashes
lovely complexion
light-brown hair with glints of bronze

5. Mary Todd Lincoln loved finery danced gracefully $27,000 traitor
treason
unpatriotic extravagance
shirking her social duties

6. Early Careers river flatboat soldier shopkeeper postmaster surveyor
lawyer
lobbyist for Illinois Central RailRoad
Illinois state legislature (Whig Party)

7. Political life
Religion: No formal affiliation (Presbyterian) Education: No formal education Occupation: Lawyer Political Party: Whig / Republican Other Government Positions:
Elected to Illinois State Legislature, 1834
Member of U.S. House of Representatives,

8. Nick Name: Rail Splitter
1860 Presidential campaign, Republican Party "the rail-splitter."
rise from a humble past
importance of the frontier
glorified the nobility of labor
Lincoln's cousin John Hanks and Lincoln split rail in or 1830 with accompanying note.

9. Elections Year Popular Electoral Votes Votes
Abraham Lincoln 1,865, John Bell , Stephen A. Douglas 1,382,
1864 Abraham Lincoln ,206, George B. McClellan 1,803,

10. Vice Presidents Hannibal Hamlin (1861-65) Andrew Johnson (1865)
Never ran for president
No Vice President

11. Cabinet Attorney General Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury
Edward Bates ( )
James Speed ( )
Postmaster General
Montgomery Blair ( )
William Dennison ( )
Secretary of the Navy
Gideon Welles ( )
Secretary of the Interior
Caleb B. Smith ( )
John P. Usher ( )
Secretary of State
William H. Seward ( )
Secretary of the Treasury
Salmon P. Chase ( )
William P. Fessenden ( )
Hugh McCulloch (1865)
Secretary of War
Simon Cameron ( )
Edwin M. Stanton ( )

12. The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet / painted by F.B. Carpenter ; engraved by A.H. Ritchie.

14. Gettysburg Address
. . . that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion —that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom —and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

15. Presidency
showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored people of Baltimore, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., Oct. 29, 1864.

16. A House Divided
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
``A house divided against itself cannot stand.''
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free .
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved ---I do not expect the house to fall ---but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the other.

17. The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1865.

18. News of Abraham Lincoln’s Death
[From page 1 of The New York Times, April 16, 1865]
OUR GREAT LOSS
Death of President Lincoln.
The Songs of Victory Drowned in Sorrow.
LOSING SCENES OF A NOBLE LIFE.
The Great Sorrow of an Afflicted Nation.
Party Differences Forgotten in Public Grief.
Vice-President Johnson Inaugurated as Chief Executive.
MR. SEWARD WILL RECOVER.
John Wilkes Booth Believed to be the Assassin Manifestations of the People Throughout the Country.

19. $100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large.

20. Trivia Tallest President
Only president to have stepmother during childhood
Claimed to be a direct descendant of Paul Revere
Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain written about him
First President assassinated

21. Trivia President with most biographies (40+)
First President born beyond the boundaries of the original 13 states
Had the only child (William) to die in the White House
Wife accused of spying for the Confederacy during the Civil War
First President to lie in state in the Capital rotunda

22. Quotes A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

23. Resources American Experience: The Time of the Lincolns
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24. Resources
Lincoln, Mary Todd. [Photograph]. In Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Retrieved from