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Abraham Lincoln

A life mask of the 16th President of the US Abraham Lincoln is on display on April 11, 2012at the Smithsonian Mueseum of American History in Washington, DC, during the press preview for “American Stories,” a new exhibition showcasing stories about the American experience, which opens on April 12. The exhibition features more than 100 objects, which take visitors on a chronological view of US history that spans the Pilgrims’ 1620 arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts , through the 2008 Presidential election.

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About Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln i/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts to be elected to the United States Senate.

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