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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America 1809 - 1865 (Republican).

Notable for his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which changed the federal legal status of enslaved persons under a Confederate government from "slave" to "free".

In April 1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by the Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth.

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