Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:45AM

Abraham Lincoln

The 16th President of the United States who was responsible for ending slavery in his country was the self-educated son of a country frontier family.
He tried starting his own businesses and a political career, but because of the lack of education, powerful connections, or money, he failed at two businesses and in eight elections.
When he got married to Mary Todd, they had four sons, but three of them died early on from illness—triggering clinical depression in Lincoln.
But by 1860, Lincoln got nominated to be the Democratic candidate to the presidency.
He won the elections, and as President of the United States oversaw the Civil War to its very end, with the emancipation of African-American slaves.

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