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Abraham Lincoln

(Hodgenville, USA, 1809 - Washington, 1865) American politician. Abraham Lincoln was born into a family of Quaker settlers. During his childhood and youth, marked bypoverty of his family, traveled the Mississippi and lived from about the inhumane conditions endured by black slaves.

Abraham Lincoln was twenty years old when he left the farmwhere he worked to fight as a soldier in the war against the Indians. Meanwhile, he began his self-taught and achieved around 1836 graduating law. Two years earlier, his attitude againstslavery had led him to intervene in politics, earning him his election as deputy for the period 1834-1842. Through its defense of better living conditions for blacks and his eloquence,achieved great popularity across the state.
In 1846 Lincoln reached Whig party leader, and as a Member of Congress supported the abolitionist federal Washington. However, his determinedopposition to the war against Mexico, to be completed territories obtained Alta California, New Mexico, northern Sonora, Coahuila and Tamaulipas and the annexation of Texas, he lost alot of votes, and failed in the 1849 Senate elections.
Disappointed, Lincoln retired from politics and worked for six years as a prosecutor. His return to public life came in 1854, whenthe issue of slavery came to political following the Kansas-Nebraska Act advocate extended to the northwestern states. Although he initially supported the abolition of slavery in thestates where it already existed, especially in the South, opposed to instituted in those where it was not warranted.
 In 1961, internal divisions favored by the Democrats, was electedto the presidency of the Union, triggering the reaction of Southerners states. Before officially assumed the presidency, they, led by South Carolina, declared themselves independent.