Abraham_Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Lincoln, in his life accomplished a lot of things that many may only dream about, and a few actually live out. Abraham Lincoln's brother Thomas died in infancy. Later his mother died, and his father remarried. But Lincoln kept going on. Lincoln was elected captain of a volunteer company, in Black Hawk War. Lincoln was proving to be a good leader, which later led him to victory. Later in Illinois, Lincoln ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois legislature. Two years later Lincoln was elected the Lower House for the first four successive terms as a Whig. Abraham Lincoln dealt with a many hardships and political obstacles, but Lincoln was rewarded when he was elected sixteenth President of the nation. Lincoln’s family originated in Massachusetts and later moved to Kentucky. His father’s name was Thomas and his mother’s name was Nancy. Lincoln had one sister named Sarah. As a child Lincoln never really had a true home. The Lincolns were always moving from state to state because of government issues. The government would challenge Thomas on his land titles, where every time the government would sell his property and the Lincolns were forced to move. Lincoln never had any formal education growing lincoln, illinois, johnson, state, political, lincoln’s, legislature, later, elected, whig, slavery, own, became, took, time, thomas, never, made, government, world, washington, representative, ran, politics, one, name, minority, military, means, man, lincolns, life, leader, house, good, first