Posted on 02/12/2023 11:52:05 AM PST by thecodont
Abraham Lincoln, known for his determination and perseverance, is the most famous U.S. presidents in history. He became the 16th president of the U.S. on 4th March 1861. With these 47 interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln, let’s learn about his life, career, politics, mission, philosophy, and death. Facts about Lincoln’s childhood, education, family, marriage, religious belief etc
1. Education: Lincoln was a self-educated man. He had little formal education; however, he practiced law. On the other hand, Lincoln’s dad was only literate enough to write his name.
2. He was the second child of his parents. They were farmers and their family lived in Kentucky until 1816. There’s hasn’t yet been a president who was an only child. The majority of US presidents were middle children.
3. Death of his mother: Lincoln’s mother died from drinking poisoned milk. His father soon married another woman by the name Sarah Bush Johnston, who was a widow. She had a good relation with Abraham and he liked her company as well.
4. Lincoln did not have a middle name.
5. Lincoln also worked as a licensed bartender.
6. Lincoln was an avid hunter.
7. Religion: Lincoln was never a member of an organized church. He read the bible to learn about Christianity.
8. Marriage: In 1842, Lincoln was got married to a 23-year old woman named Mary Todd who was just 5 feet 2 inches while Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches. They had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States of America, passed away in 1882.
9. Abraham Lincoln also had a serious girlfriend named Mary. However, they broke up and he later married Mary Todd.
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Here we go, you have kicked over a lost cost hornets nest.
Nice quote, if he said it...
Yea, he just opened it up to all of the Lincoln haters on FR.
Great stuff - Thanks!
Lincoln was an atheist, or an agnostic.
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and jailed his vocal detractors.
Lincoln thought blacks were inferior, and said so.
Lincoln only freed the slaves as a wartime maneuver, hoping for an insurrection in the Southern states.
But, he’s a secular saint to those raised on NEA textbooks.
Thanks.
I’m posting this in part because (a) today is Lincoln’s birthday, (b) I don’t want it to be sent down the memory hole by current culture.
We used to have two separate holidays in February, one for Lincoln’s birthday and one for Washington’s birthday. One for the one who saved the Union, one for the one who founded our country.
I am seeing a disturbing current trend of people who think that the current mongrel holiday of “Presidents Day” is meant to celebrate all presidents, most notably Democrat presidents, and your current and favorite Democrat presidents especially.
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/presidents-day
“Presidents’ Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February; Presidents’ Day 2023 will occur on Monday, February 20. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, the holiday became popularly known as Presidents’ Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents, past and present.”
Please note the last sentence. It’s a way of wiping out history.
And... here we go.
Yeah, I’m a bad, bad boy . : )
I believe you were looking for lost “cause”?
While I have no great love or adoration for Lincoln, I look on his assassination as the last and cruelest stroke against the southern states.
Lincoln was determined to bring the former Confederate states back into the Union as easily and gently as possible. With Lincoln dead there was no one to hold the northern fire breathers in line and the rape of the south became policy.
That’s true.
Hmm... Lincoln’s father poisoned his wife....
I visited the Lincoln Library in Springfield, IL last year. There’s a sign that notes he’s the second most written about person in history, second only to Our Lord and Savior.
 | Nice post! I kept reading to the end. In Lincoln's quote, "A house divided against itself cannot stand" we can read the crisis of our Republic today. For more good reading of Lincoln passages, check out his Wikiquotes page. There are also some striking images to see there. |
“ My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”
"What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
- President Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862, in response to Horace Greeley’s editorial, “A Prayer of Twenty Millions,” which had called for immediate emancipation of slaves.
With Lincoln dead there was no one to hold the northern fire breathers in line and the rape of the south became policy.Historian Eric Foner and his fellow marxists claim that Reconstruction failed because of the removal of Northern troops following the compromise of 1877.
He may well have been gay. He shared a bed with another man....for 4 years.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/was-abraham-lincoln-gay
He was also the only POTUS in history to order a mass execution.
https://ictnews.org/news/traumatic-true-history-full-list-dakota-38
The “Confederate Mound” in Chicago is the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere. Up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers who died in the infamous Camp Douglas which inspectors candidly labeled a “death camp”.
https://www.amazon.com/Die-Chicago-Confederate-Prisoners-1862-1865/dp/1879260204
“He may well have been gay. He shared a bed with another man....for 4 years.”
FWIW, it wasn’t a sex thing.
Go back and look at who slept with whom during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Different times; different cultural mores.
Uhhh you might want to read that link again. Lincoln shared his bed with more than one dude.
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