Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was a good lawyer which led him to being the president in which he freed the slays. Abraham is a very president and was honest and people like him well beside the southern people which hated him because he wanted the slave to be freed, no more imprisonment. Abraham was very good lawyer in his days. Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s. Then in 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term. He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line. Mr. Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to the U.S. house of representatives where he served one two-year term. On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican and American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for "military glory that rises in showers of blood". Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U.S. territory won from Mexico. On May 9, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur. Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, and some others and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency. On November 6, 1860. Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. He was the first president from the Republican Party. Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states. The most important thing Abraham Lincoln did as president was freeing the slaves. At the beginning of the war, he also tried to persuade the states to accept emancipation in
