Abraham Lincoln's Birthday is a legal holiday celebrated in some U.S. states on February 12th. Regardless of the day of the week, February 12 is observed as a state holiday in California, Connecticut, Missouri, and Illinois in honour of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The day following Thanksgiving is observed as a holiday in Indiana for Lincoln's Birthday.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is known for leading the nation during the Civil War, enacting the Emancipation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809, which marks the beginning of the history of Lincoln. At the age of 23, Whig Party member Lincoln filed an unsuccessful bid for the Illinois General Assembly, launching his political career. In 1854, he became a member of the brand-new Republican Party. In 1860, Lincoln was elected president. In addition to being remembered for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln served as president throughout the American Civil War. On Good Friday in April 1865, John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln at Washington, DC's Ford's Theatre.

incoln, a centrist Republican, had to negotiate a divisive web of groups that included allies and adversaries from the Democratic and Republican parties. His allies, the Radical Republicans and the War Democrats, asked that the Southern Confederates be treated harshly. Lincoln was hated by anti-war Democrats (referred to as "Copperheads"), and irrational pro-Confederate extremists sought his murder. He controlled the groups by taking advantage of their animosity towards one another, judiciously allocating political favours, and appealing to the American people. One of the most significant and powerful declarations of American national purpose is his Gettysburg Address.

Lincoln imposed a naval blockade on the South's trade and closely oversaw the strategy and tactics used in the war effort, including the choice of generals. By putting an end to the Trent Affair, he prevented British interference and suspended the right to habeas corpus in Maryland and other places. He declared the slaves in the states that were "in rebellion" to be free in the Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued in 1863. The Army and Navy were instructed to "recognise and safeguard the freedom of such persons" and to "accept them into the armed service of the United States." Lincoln also pushed border states to ban slavery and supported the approval of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ended slavery.

Abraham Lincoln’s Quotes

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ...

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. ...

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ...

 “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

 “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him.”