Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the Union through the American Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states forever free. He is best known for preserving the Union during the Civil War and advancing the abolition of slavery, culminating in the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865.