His recently-appointed running mate, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.
It was less than a week. Lincoln's assassination and Lee's surrender occurred during the same week.
Yes, There is one known photograph taken of Lincoln after the assassination, it was taken ten days after the assassination while Lincoln's body was lying in state in New York City Hall, during his funeral train procession.
Abraham Lincoln was the president when Abraham Lincoln was the president.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head on April 14, 1865 during a play at Fords Theater in Washington. The play was a comedy and when the crowd was laughing Booth shoot the pistol. LIncoln died the next morning in a house across the street. Booth hoped that the assassination would inspire the South to keep fighting even though Lee had surrendered his army the week before. Booth was part of a plot to also kill Vice-President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward.
Yes, he was present. He served as President of the United States from March 1861 through his assassination in April of 1865.
Abraham Lincoln had two vice presidents during his time in office. His first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin, who served from 1861 to 1865. For his second term, he chose Andrew Johnson, who served from 1865 until Lincoln's assassination later that year.
Yes. After Lincoln's assassination, Mrs. Lincoln sent Frederick Douglass the late President's "favorite walking staff," or cane, in recognition of Douglass' recruiting efforts during the Civil War.
The man was abrahams gaurd, gaurding the lower floor of the theater, he tried to kill booth but failed, he died later from his wounds.
John Wilkes Booth shot him with a derringer from behind in the Presidential Box of Ford's Theater during a performance of Our American Cousin.
Abraham Lincoln. Technically, we could add Andrew Johnson, who officiated in the interval between Lincoln's assassination and the final disbandment of the Confederacy a few weeks later.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the US Civil War.