Abe Lincoln
Emancipated the enslaved
Abe Lincoln is the familiar name for Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States.
Lincoln led the country through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
The nickname Abe suggests folksy approachability—Lincoln cultivated an image as a rail-splitter and man of the people: Honest Abe never told a lie.
- honestFree from deception
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- Great EmancipatorHonorific for abolition's champion
- slaveryOwnership of people
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
president · assassination · Gettysburg · four score · log cabin · log splitter · stovepipe hat · top hat · beard · Ford's Theatre · Union · Illinois · penny · memorial · Springfield · Booth · tall · lanky
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
Abe LincolnJefferson Davis
Confederacy's only president
Robert E. Lee · John Wilkes Booth · Stonewall Jackson · secessionists · secessionist
Abe LincolnRichard Nixon
James Buchanan · tyrant · despot · demagogue · Andrew Johnson