His full name was Abraham Lincoln, who abolished black slavery and freed black slaves, and he was the greatest president in American history.
He was born on February 12, 1809, into a poor family in Harding County, Kentucky.
In 1816, at the age of 7, the whole family was evicted from the house and began to wander;
In 1819, at the age of 9, his mother died, and life was even worse;
1831, 22 years old, failed in business;
In 1832, at the age of 23, he ran for state legislature and lost the election;
In 1833, at the age of 24, he borrowed money from a friend to do business, went bankrupt at the end of the year, and it took 16 years to pay off the debt;
In 1834, at the age of 25, he ran for state legislature again and was elected for the first time;
In 1835, at the age of 26, when he was about to get married after the engagement, his fiancée died and suffered a major mental blow;
In 1836, at the age of 27, he had a complete mental breakdown and was sick in bed for 6 months;
In 1838, at the age of 29, he ran unsuccessfully for the spokesman of the state legislator;
In 1840, at the age of 31, he ran to become an elector, but failed;
In 1843, at the age of 34, he participated in the congressional election and lost the election;
In 1846, at the age of 37, he ran again in the general election of the National Assembly and was successfully elected;
In 1848, at the age of 39, he sought re-election as a member of Congress, but failed;
In 1849, at the age of 40, he offered himself to serve as the director of the land bureau in the state, but was rejected;
In 1854, at the age of 45, he ran for the United States Senate and lost the election;
In 1856, at the age of 47, he won the nomination of vice president at the Republican National Convention, receiving less than 100 votes;
In 1858, at the age of 49, he ran for the U.S. Senate again and lost again;
In 1860, at the age of 51, he was elected President of the United States.
Ranked first among the greatest presidents in American history, Lincoln's life can be described as a failure, but he never gave up.
Character career
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, into a poor family in Harding County, Kentucky. His parents were descendants of British immigrants who made a living farming and hunting. As a child, Lincoln helped the family carry firewood, carry water, and do farm work.
In 1816, Lincoln's family moved to southwestern Indiana, where they cleared land and farmed for a living. When he was 9 years old, Lincoln's 36-year-old mother tragically died. A year later, my father married a kind and enlightened woman named Sally Bush. The stepmother is kind and hardworking, treats the children of her husband's ex-wife as her own, and is full of love for Lincoln Jr., Lincoln also loves his stepmother, and the family lives harmoniously and happily.
Lincoln in youth
But his family was poor, so Lincoln only went to elementary school for 4 months, in order to study, he borrowed books everywhere, replaced them with labor, could not afford books, practiced words on the walls, and gradually accumulated a lot of knowledge including poetry, law, biography, in addition, he also taught himself geometry.
Before the age of 25, Lincoln had no fixed occupation. To support his family, he worked as a sailor, ferryman on the Ohio River, plantation worker, shop assistant and stonemason. As an adult, Lincoln became a local land surveyor because he was well versed in surveying and calculations and was often invited to settle border disputes.
The political path
In 1934, Lincoln made a political speech at a political rally, and because of his attacks on slavery and his suggestions, Lincoln had some influence in the public.
In 1836, he became a lawyer by teaching himself, and soon Lincoln became Whig leader in the state legislature.
Lincoln in 1946
In 1846, after several defeats in the election, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 37. Around this time, the controversy over slavery became a major event in American political life. In this controversy, Lincoln gradually became an anti-slaveryist. He believed that slavery should eventually be abolished, first and foremost in Washington, D.C.
In 1850, the power of slave owners in the United States increased greatly, and Lincoln was forced to give up his status as a congressman and return to lawyers.
In 1856, Lincoln withdrew from the Whig Party because of his strong opposition to the expansion of slavery and joined the newly formed anti-slavery Republican Party, where he soon became its main leader.
Lincoln in 1857
In November 1860, after Lincoln was elected president of the United States, the Republican Party took office for the first time, and after Lincoln's election, the plantation owners of the South regained their long-controlled leadership of the country, 11 states withdrew from the Union, proclaimed the "Confederate States of America", and formulated a new constitution and elected a new president.
On April 15, 1861, Lincoln ordered the conscription of volunteers to fight for Union unity, and the Civil War broke out.
Civil war
In September 1862, Lincoln personally drafted the Emancipation Proclamation (draft). On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was officially promulgated, announcing the abolition of slavery in the rebellious states with immediate effect, and that freed slaves could be called into the Union army. The declaration of the freedom of black slaves fundamentally dismantled the combat effectiveness of the southern army and also gave the northern army a source of troops.
Emancipation Proclamation
On November 8, 1864, Lincoln was re-elected President of the United States for his distinguished service in the American Civil War.
At 10:15 p.m. on April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of the Confederate army, Lincoln was watching a play in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, when Southern actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head while the president's bodyguard was leaving.
Lincoln
At 7 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln passed away at the age of 56. It was one of the saddest events in American history, but his legacy and legacy are truly eternal.
Marble statue of the Lincoln Memorial
Character evaluation
He is a man who is not intimidated by difficulties, who is not fooled by success, who moves indomitably towards his great goals and never acts rashly, who moves forward steadily and never backwards... In short, he is a rare figure who has reached great heights and still maintains his good qualities. This man of distinction and high moral integrity was so humble that it was only after he fell as a martyr that the whole world discovered him as a hero. - Karl Marx, founder of Marxism
The poorest commoner, the greatest president, Lincoln went from an obscure man to the greatest president in American history, and all the hardships in this period can only be understood by himself.
There is no permanent failure in this world, as long as we keep trying, success will eventually favor us.