Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
55.03% of the nationwide popular vote in the 1864 U.S. Presidential Election was in favor of Abraham Lincoln.
Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. In the 1864 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes and George McClellan received 21 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 2,218,388 and McClellan 1,812,807.
Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the president when Abraham Lincoln was the president.
During the the Mexican war, congressman Abraham Lincoln challenged the presidential prerogative of US President Polk during the Mexican War. Ironically, it was the same Abraham Lincoln that gave the US presidency greater power of war and peace than ever before in his policies during the US Civil War.
he did not want slavery to expand but he was okay for it to remain in the states that it was legal.
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 was president during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was never a general during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War.