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16Th PRESIDENT Facts About the Presidents 16th PRESIDENT From Facts About the President, 7th Edition, by Joseph Nathan Kane, Janet Podell, and Steven Anvozin. Copyright © 2001 by The H. W. Wilson Company 1 Facts About the Presidents Abraham Lincoln Date of birth—Feb. 12, 1809 State represented—Illinois Place of birth—Hodgenville, Hardin Term of office—Mar. 4, 1861–Apr. 15, 1865 County (now Larue County), Ky. Term served—4 years, 42 days Education—Sporadic attendance at the Administration—19th, 20th intermittent public schools; self-taught Congresses—37th, 38th, 39th through reading Age at inauguration—52 years, 20 days Religion—Christian (no specific denomina- Lived after term—Died in office tion) Date of death—Apr. 15, 1865 Ancestry—English Age at death—56 years, 62 days Career—Store clerk, soldier, postmaster, rail-splitter, surveyor, lawyer, state legisla- Place of death—Washington, D.C. tor, U.S. congressman Burial place—Oak Ridge Cemetery, Political party—Republican Springfield, Ill. Family Father Stepmother Name—Thomas Lincoln Name at birth—Sarah Bush Date of birth—Jan. 6, 1778 Date of birth—Dec. 12, 1788 Place of birth—Rockingham County, Va. Place of birth—Hardin County, Ky. First marriage— Nancy Hanks, June 12, First marriage—Daniel Johnston, Mar. 13, 1806, Beechland, Ky. 1806 (d. Oct. 1818) Second marriage—Sarah Bush Johnston Second marriage—Thomas Lincoln, Dec. 2, Occupation—Farmer, soldier, carpenter, 1819, Elizabethtown, Ky. woodcutter, wheelwright, laborer Children from first marriage—Four chil- Date of death—Jan. 17, 1851 dren Place of death—Coles County, Ill. Children from second marriage—None Age at death—73 years, 11 days Date of death—Apr. 10, 1869 Place of death—Charleston, Ill. Mother Age at death—80 years, 119 days Name at birth—Nancy Hanks Date of birth—Feb. 5, 1784 Siblings Place of birth—Campbell County, Va. Abraham Lincoln was the second child of his Marriage—Thomas Lincoln, June 12, 1806, father’s first wife. Beechland, Ky. Children of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Date of death—Oct. 5, 1818 Hanks Lincoln Place of death—Spencer County, Ind. Nancy (“Sarah”) Lincoln, b. Feb. 10, 1807, d. Jan. 20, 1828 Age at death—34 years, 242 days Abraham Lincoln, b. Feb. 12, 1809, d. Apr. 15, 1865 From Facts About the President, 7th Edition, by Joseph Nathan Kane, Janet Podell, and Steven Anvozin. Copyright © 2001 by The H. W. Wilson Company 2 Facts About the Presidents Thomas Lincoln, b. 1811, d. 1813 Children Robert Todd Lincoln, b. Aug. 1, 1843, Spring- Marriage field, Ill.; m. Sept. 24, 1868, Mary Harlan, Married—Mary Todd Washington, D.C.; d. July 25, 1926, Date of marriage—Nov. 4, 1842 Manchester, Vt. Place of marriage—Springfield, Ill. Edward Baker Lincoln, b. Mar. 10, 1846, Springfield, Ill.; d. Feb. 1, 1850, Spring- Age of wife at marriage—23 years, 326 field, Ill. days William Wallace Lincoln, b. Dec. 21, 1850, Age of husband at marriage—33 years, Springfield, Ill.; d. Feb. 20, 1862, at the 265 days White House, Washington, D.C. Years married—22 years, 162 days Thomas (“Tad”) Lincoln, b. Apr. 4, 1853, Springfield, Ill.; d. July 15, 1871, Chicago, Ill. The President’s Wife Name at birth—Mary Todd The First Lady Date of birth—Dec. 13, 1818 Mary Todd Lincoln served as hostess of Place of birth—Lexington, Ky. the White House in a very simple and quiet Mother—Eliza Ann Parker Todd manner. The war years placed a pall on social Father—Robert Smith Todd functions and much of her time was devoted to war work. Nevertheless, Mrs. Lincoln, Father’s occupation—Banker, manufac- whose family had founded the city of Lexing- turer, merchant, farmer ton, Kentucky, spent extravagant sums in Education—John Ward’s academy and pursuit of her goal of turning the Executive Mme. Mentelle’s school, Lexington, Ky. Mansion into an American palace. She was Marriage—Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 4, 1842, an intelligent, energetic woman who always Springfield, Ill. tried to embody the ideals of nineteenth-cen- Children—Robert Todd Lincoln, b. Aug. 1, tury femininity—being a steadfast mother 1843, d. July 25, 1926; Edward Baker and a loyal, submissive wife—but the rigid Lincoln, b. Mar. 10, 1846, d. Feb. 1, 1850; codes of female conduct in her time placed William Wallace Lincoln, b. Dec. 21, 1850, restrictions on her outspoken ways and inde- d. Feb. 20, 1862; Thomas (“Tad”) Lincoln, b. pendent nature. Apr. 4, 1853, d. July 15, 1871 Date of death—July 16, 1882 Lincoln’s Wife And The South Age at death—63 years, 215 days Mary Todd Lincoln, born in Lexington, Place of death—Springfield, Ill. Ky., was the subject of much speculation. Her Burial place—Springfield, Ill. patriotism was questioned by many. Years younger than the President—9 Her brother, George Rogers Clark Todd, years, 304 days was a surgeon in the Confederate army. Her half-brother, Samuel Briggs Todd, a Years she survived the President—17 soldier in the Confederate army, was killed at years, 92 days the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7, 1862. Another half-brother, David H. Todd, an officer, died from wounds received at Vicks- From Facts About the President, 7th Edition, by Joseph Nathan Kane, Janet Podell, and Steven Anvozin. Copyright © 2001 by The H. W. Wilson Company 3 Facts About the Presidents burg, Miss., and another, Alexander H. Todd, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the was killed at Baton Rouge, La., August 20, United States, appear of my own volition 1862. before this committee of the Senate, to The husband of Emilie, her half-sister, say I, of my own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any of my family hold trea- was Confederate Brigadier General Ben Har- sonable relations with the enemy. din Helm, killed on September 20, 1863, at Chickamauga, Ga. Mrs. Lincoln Committed Two other brothers-in-law were also in the Confederate service. In 1875 a Court of Inquest ordered that President Lincoln appeared before the Mrs. Lincoln “be committed to a state hospi- Senate members of the Committee on the tal for the insane.” She was confined to the Conduct of the War, and made this state- Bellevue Place Sanatorium, a private institu- ment: tion at Batavia, Ill., from May 20, 1875, to September 10, 1875. Important Dates in the President’s Life 1816, family moved from Kentucky to Indi- 1837, moved to Springfield, Ill. ana Mar. 1, 1837, admitted to the bar July 1827, hired to operate a ferry across the Mar. 4, 1847–Mar. 3, 1849, U.S. House of Anderson River in Spencer County, Ind. Representatives (only Whig elected from Apr. 1828, hired to pilot a flatboat from Rock- Illinois) port, Ind., to New Orleans, La. Feb. 8, 1855, unsuccessful Whig candidate for Mar. 1, 1830, family moved from Indiana to senator from Illinois Illinois June 19, 1856, unsuccessful aspirant to the Mar. 1831, hired to build a flatboat at Sanga- Republican vice presidential nomination mon Town, Ill., and take a load of produce Aug.–Oct. 1858, Lincoln-Douglas debates in to New Orleans Illinois (senatorial campaign) 1832, volunteer, Sangamon Rifle Co., Rich- Nov. 2, 1858, unsuccessful candidate for sen- land, Ill.; reenlisted as private; mustered ator from Illinois on Republican ticket out June 16; returned to New Salem, Ill.; May 18, 1860, nominated for the presidency unsuccessful in general merchandise busi- Nov. 6, 1860, elected as first Republican Pres- ness with partner ident Aug. 6, 1832, unsuccessful candidate for Illi- Mar. 4, 1861–Mar. 4, 1865, President (first nois legislature term) Mar. 6, 1833, received saloon license to dis- Nov. 19, 1863, delivered Gettysburg Address pense liquor at Springfield, Ill. (Berry and Nov. 8, 1864, reelected President Lincoln) Mar. 4, 1865, inaugurated President for sec- May 7, 1833, appointed postmaster, New ond term ending Mar. 4, 1869 Salem, Ill. Apr. 14, 1865, assassinated at Ford’s The- Dec. 7, 1835–Feb. 7, 1836, Illinois General ater, Washington, D.C.; died at 7:22 A.M., Assembly Apr. 15 From Facts About the President, 7th Edition, by Joseph Nathan Kane, Janet Podell, and Steven Anvozin. Copyright © 2001 by The H. W. Wilson Company 4 Facts About the Presidents Elections The Election of 1860 Andrew Johnson, Tenn., 12, 0 Daniel Stevens Dickinson, N.Y., 7, 4 November 6, 1860 Joseph Lane, Ore., 6, 14 1 Candidates Isaac Toucey, Conn., 2 /2, 0 1 Republican Party (2nd Convention) Jefferson Davis, Miss., 1 /2, 1 May 16–18, 1860, the Wigwam, Chicago, Ill. Franklin Pierce, N.H., 1, 0 P: Abraham Lincoln, Ill. Total number of votes: 1 VP: Hannibal Hamlin, Me. First ballot: 252 /2 Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot. Fifty-seventh ballot: 252 Before the third ballot was completed, a shift Number necessary for nomination: 202 in votes brought Lincoln’s total to 364 votes. Unable to reach a decision on the fifty-sev- Candidates for nomination and the votes they enth ballot, the convention adjourned to meet received on the first and third ballots: at Baltimore, Md., on June 18, 1860. William Henry Seward, N.Y., 1731/ , 180 2 Democratic Party (Northern or Douglas 1 Abraham Lincoln, Ill., 102, 231 /2 Democrat) Simon Cameron, Pa., 501/ , 0 June 18–23, 1860, Front Street Theatre, 2 Baltimore, Md. 1 Salmon Portland Chase, Ohio, 49, 24 /2 P: Stephen Arnold Douglas, Ill. Edward Bates, Mo., 48, 22 VP: Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Ga. William Lewis Dayton, N.J., 14, 1 Douglas was nominated on the second bal- John McLean, Ohio, 12, 5 lot. Candidates for nomination and the votes Jacob Colamer, Vt., 10, 0 they received on the first and second ballots: Benjamin Franklin Wade, Ohio, 3, 0 1 1 Stephen Arnold Douglas, Ill., 173 /2, 181 /2 John Charles Frémont, Calif., 1, 0 James Guthrie, Ky., 9, 51/ John M.
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