First president fro the Republican party

County lawyer-->Whig party leader-->Illionis state legistlator-->member of US house of reperesentatives in 1840

• Febuary 12th, 1809- April 15th, 1865
• 16th president
• Assasinated at a play
• Elected in 1860= secession of the South
• Married Mary Todd Lincoln
• Assassinated by Conferate sympathizer John Wilks Booth

 Acted as commander in cheif