Abraham Lincoln
Failures
Personal life
Success
waged a political struggle and civil war that preserved the union in 1861
Born: 12 février 1809
Carrer
created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans in 1863
militia soldier during the Black Hawk War
- Several of his companies went bankrupt
- failed in the general elections
- lost his job
- was refused the entrance exam to study law
-his presentation to the Senate was a failure, as was his candidacy for Congress and the country’s vice-president
assassinated : April 15, 1865
and became a lawyer in Illinois
surveyor
married to : Mary Todd Lincoln
store clerk
He was elected to the Illinois Legislature in 1834, and was reelected in 1836, 1838, 1840 and 1844.
he worked as a boatma
Lincoln settled in the village of New Salem
1831 Failure in his first case
1832 Failure in the general elections
1833 Second failure in a company
1836 Severe nervous breakdown
1838 Failure to become a lecturer
1840 Election failure
four children :
Robert; Edward; Willie;Tad
1843 Refusal to Join Congress
1848 Second failure in Congress
1855 Failure to Join the Senate
1856 Failure to become vice-president
1858 Second failure in the Senate
born into a poor family
FINALLY 1860 Elected President of the United States
Built the Republican Party into a strong national organization
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated
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autodidact
found of wrestling / work as a farmer
Political party
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Republican (after 1856)
Whig (before 1856)
picture of Abraham Lincon working as a young man
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studied law