Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Lincoln has received more than 43,689,374 page views. His biography is available in 184 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 176 in 2019). Abraham Lincoln is the 28th most popular politician (down from 27th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from United States (down from 7th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Politician.

Abraham Lincoln is most famous for being the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War, which was a conflict between the Northern and Southern states. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.