Abraham Lincoln Facts

    * He was born on February 12th 1809, and died April 15th 1865 at the age of fifty six.

    * His home state is Illinois.

    * His party was Republican and he was president for four years from 1861-1865, when he was assassinated.

    * His vice presidents where Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.

    * He was preceded by James Buchanan and succeeded by Andrew Johnson.

    * His wife was called Mary Todd Lincoln, who was brought up into a very wealthy family.

    * Mary’s parents disagreed with her marrying Abraham because he had a poor background.

    * Abraham had four children, Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln. Only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood.

    * Abraham was an unaffiliated Christian as he never officially acquired church membership.

    * He created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency.

    * He was the first president to be assassinated.

    * He had deep depression, even though he would frequently tell stories and jokes to friends and family.

    * He was the tallest U.S president at 6ft 4 inches.

    * He patented a system to alter buoyancy of steamboats in 1849.

    * His birth mother died from milk sickness.

    * His father remarried a widow, and Abraham was very close to his step mother.

    * He ran a store in New Salem.

    * Even though he was strong, a talented wrestler, and proficient with an axe, Lincoln disliked killing and harming animals, even for food.

    * Lincoln proposed to Mary just one year after meeting her in Springfield 1839.

    * He was the first president to have a beard.

    * Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.

    * Lincoln was fond of pets, and owned horses, cats, dogs and a turkey.