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    The document provides biographical information about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, who became a lawyer without attending law school. It details Lincoln's childhood, family life, political career including his stance on slavery and role as president during the Civil War, as well as some unusual facts about his life and accomplishments.

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    The document provides biographical information about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, who became a lawyer without attending law school. It details Lincoln's childhood, family life, political career including his stance on slavery and role as president during the Civil War, as well as some unusual facts about his life and accomplishments.

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    Abraham Lincoln

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    The document provides biographical information about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, who became a lawyer without attending law school. It details Lincoln's childhood, family life, political career including his stance on slavery and role as president during the Civil War, as well as some unusual facts about his life and accomplishments.

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    Abraham Lincoln: A Legal

    Legend With No Law Degree


    The reason of having a presentation on
    Abraham Lincoln
    A person who didn’t go to a law school and still had been an
    influence at that time for many lawyers and judges and still is. A
    white who stood for the whole race of blacks and outlawed slavery
    from America . A lawyer who convinced the judge of innocence of
    his client by using an Almanac as the evidence, a polymath , and one
    who gave significant contributions being the president of United
    States . He actually inspires me as a person who had immense
    power as a leader but still he stood for people who were weak , a
    person with great temperament and a man of his words .
    “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
    to know what his grandson will be.” – Abraham Lincoln.
    Some really strange facts about Lincoln
    • Lincoln worked as a licensed bartender ,though he never
    really drank.
    • Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to have obtained a
    patent.
    • He created the first federal income tax in 1861.
    • Lincoln's assassin , John Wilkes Booth, was a famous actor and
    Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
    • Lincoln was the first major leader in the world to feel that
    women should be allowed to vote.
    • Abraham Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame,
    having lost just once in 300 matches.
    • Abraham Lincoln created the secret service the day he was
    shot.
    Lincoln as the President
    • On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States,
    beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern
    Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first
    president from the Republican Party.
    • He was a great follower of equality and criticised slavery through out his life. After
    the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U.S. Senate in 1858,
    Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, addressing which he said , "A house
    divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure
    permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do
    not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
    • Lincoln knew that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the
    Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. He argued
    before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result
    from preventing its expansion into new U.S. territory. After election he succeeded in
    getting the 13th Amendment passed by the House of Representatives though the
    house was still dominated by the number of Democrats, his political opponents .
    • After the end of civil war, in his gettysburg address , Lincoln gave his famous speech
    with the famous words of his, that "government of the people, by the people, for
    the people, shall not perish from the earth". Lincoln concluded that the Civil War
    had a profound objective: a new birth of freedom in the nation.
    Family and Childhood
     Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in
    Hardin County , kentucky. He was one of the three
    children of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He
    and Charles Darwin were born on the same day.
     In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd,
    who belonged to a wealthy slave-holding family in
    Lexington, Kentucky.
     He and Mary gave birth to four children, of which
    only one son survived ,other children died of
    illness.
    Legal career
    • Lincoln did take formal schooling but just for 12 months and didn’t
    have a law degree too. He was a self taught lawyer and learnt law from
    the books. Lincoln started practicing law as a prairie lawyer in
    Springfield, taking up “every kind of business that could come before a
    prairie lawyer“.
    • He fought over 175 cases when he was practicing in Illinois Supreme
    Court. From 1853 to 1860, his largest client was the Illinois Central
    Railroad. His reputation with clients gave rise to his nickname "Honest
    Abe.“
    • Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he
    defended William "Duff" Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder
    of James Preston Metzker . The case is famous for the use of a fact
    established by judicial notice in order to challenge the credibility of an
    eyewitness. After an opposing witness testified seeing the crime in the
    moonlight, Lincoln produced a Farmers' Almanac showing that the
    moon was at a low angle, drastically reducing visibility. Based on this
    evidence, Armstrong was acquitted.

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