- Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the U.S., serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
- Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
- He was a general store owner, postmaster, and lawyer before being elected.
- He practiced law without a degree. Lincoln had about 18 months of formal schooling.
- Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
- Lincoln was an avid hunter.
- Lincoln did not have a middle name.
- Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying knives, fearing he would use it on himself.
- Lincoln’s assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
- Lincoln’s mother was killed by poisoned milk when he was 9 years old.
- Lincoln was estranged from his father and didn’t attend his funeral.
- Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of his father’s killer, John Wilkes Booth.
- Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S. to feel that women should be allowed to vote.
- In 1842, Lincoln got married to a 23-year old woman named Mary Todd.
- Mary Todd was an opium addict.
- Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States of America, passed away in 1882.
- Lincoln was a wrestler and an accomplished one. He lost just one fight out of the 300 he fought. He is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
- Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
- Lincoln was seemingly obsessed with cats.
- Lincoln’s cat Tabby ate at the White House dinner table.
- FIDO, Abraham Lincoln’s dog, was also assassinated.
- Lincoln was the first president to use the telegraph.
- He used the telegraph like email to communicate with generals.
- Lincoln gave birth to the U.S. Secret Service.
- Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
- In 1876, a gang of Chicago counterfeiters attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body from his tomb and request a US$200,000 ransom.
- An 11-Year-Old Girl Convinced Abraham Lincoln to Grow His Beard.
- Abraham Lincoln hated to be called “Abe.”
- Abraham Lincoln created the first federal income tax in 1861.
- There are more books written about Lincoln than any other American.
- He ran for the U.S. Senate twice and lost.
- Abraham Lincoln’s coffin has been moved 17 times and opened 5 times.
- Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6 foot 4.
- Abraham Lincoln kept his important documents inside his hat.
- He was a judge on the circuit court in Illinois.
- Lincoln was in a coma between the time he was shot and the time he passed away the next morning.
- Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both shot in the head on a Friday.
- Lincoln’s suit was made by Brooks Brothers.
- He was the first president with a beard.
- Abraham Lincoln wore size 14 shoes, the biggest in U.S. president history.
- Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Presidency.
- Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be photographed at his inauguration.
- Abraham Lincoln believed black people should not have the right to vote, serve on juries, or intermarry with whites.
- Lincoln loved to eat oysters.
- His favorite food was fruit
- Before he got assassinated, Abraham Lincoln had dreamt of his assassination.
- He was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War.
- He didn’t drink, smoke, or chew. Lincoln was a simple man of tastes, and he never drank in the White House.
- Someone shot at Lincoln in 1864 and put a hole in his stovepipe hat.
- There are no direct living descendants of Abraham Lincoln.