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'''Abraham Lincoln''' was the 16th [[President of the United States of America]] serving from 1861 to 1865.  He led his country through its greatest crisis, the [[American Civil War]], abolished [[slavery]] and built the [[Republican Party]] that dominated national politics outside [[the South]] during the [[Third Party System]].  

'''Abraham Lincoln''' was the 16th [[President of the United States of America]] serving from 1861 to 1865.  He led his country through its greatest crisis, the [[American Civil War]], abolished [[slavery]] and built the [[Republican Party]] that dominated national politics outside [[the South]] during the [[Third Party System]]. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) became the Grand Old Party (GOP).

Lincoln was [[homeschooled]] and almost completely self-taught, which likely gave him independent thinking, reliance on logic, and a desire to continue to learn as an adult.<ref>For example, Lincoln successfully proved all of Euclid's theorems while serving in Congress.</ref> His eloquence as a writer was second only to [[Thomas Jefferson]] among presidents. Lincoln was a president who, like [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Donald Trump]] after him, whose [[faith]] developed and grew while holding high public office.

Lincoln was [[homeschooled]] and almost completely self-taught, which likely gave him independent thinking, reliance on logic, and a desire to continue to learn as an adult.<ref>For example, Lincoln successfully proved all of Euclid's theorems while serving in Congress.</ref> His eloquence as a writer was second only to [[Thomas Jefferson]] among presidents. Lincoln was a president who, like [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Donald Trump]] after him, whose [[faith]] developed and grew while holding high public office.