This day in history: November 6th
On This Day, Abraham Lincoln is elected President.
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that led to the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln’s presidency started on March 4, 1861, with his inauguration as the 16th President of the United States, and concluded with his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first president to be elected from the newly formed Republican Party. Lincoln oversaw the Union triumph in the American Civil War, which dominated his administration and ended in the abolition of slavery.
ABOUT LINCOLN – Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky into poverty and raised on the frontier, largely in Indiana. He schooled himself and went on to become a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state politician, and United States Congressman from Illinois. He returned to his thriving law business in central Illinois in 1849. He returned to politics in 1854, enraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery in the territory. He quickly rose to prominence as the new Republican Party’s leader. In the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen Douglas, he acquired a national audience. Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory.
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