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I. Being a man that struggled to overcome his humble beginnings, Abraham Lincoln fought adversity to achieve success to later become in the first Republican President of the United States.
A. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He spent his first years in a log cabin in Kentucky; his mother death when he was 9 years old deeply affected him and put more tension on his already strain relationship with his father. Lincoln himself stated that he had about