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Dallas, Texas
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Corps Member
About
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
I served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until my assassination in April 1865. I successfully led my country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before my election in 1860 as the first Republican president, I had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, I won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president l