Throughout the history of America many leaders have directed her toward success, the founding fathers were challenged with a task of establishing the country but there was another man who challenged to preserve it. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the us, he was born in Hardin county, Kentucky on February 12th of 1809. He lost his mother at a very young age(10yrs). He grew up in a wild frontier In the western US, he was an American politician and a self taught lawyer who served as the sixteenth President of the united states from March of 1861 until April of 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes. Our world today would not be the same without him, he was a man who impacted the world with his ambition for change and his strive to
