Abraham Lincoln
Chief executive @ US of A, March 1861-April 1865
Current: Living statue in downtown D.C., 1914-present (sits for portraits, photos, calendars; works for pennies)
Visit my interactive, here. Follow me on Twitter @Pres_Lincoln or @AbeTheHunter. Find me on Facebook or on a fiver via WheresAbe.com (not to be confused by WheresGeorge.com).
Previous: Splitting fence rails; clerking @ general store; country lawyer; legislator, Illinois General Assembly; U.S. House of Representatives, one term (1847-49)
Education: Reading borrowed books; home-schooled by stepmother; no formal education or higher education
Skills: Telling the truth; living a lie; oration; stand-up; diplomacy; emancipation; proclamations
Connections:
Carl Sandburg, biographer
Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer
James M. McPherson, biographer
Bill O’Reilly
David Herbert Donald, biographer
Timur Bekmambetov, director
Tim Burton, writer/filmmaker
Steven Spielberg, director
E.T., confidant, fellow spa regular (for facials)
Kristen Stewart
Oscar?
Activities: Coin collector; bill collector (during government tenure); lobbyist for Americans for Common Cents: www.pennies.org; leads protests against Citizens to Retire the U.S. Penny.
Retired activities: Attending the theater
Groups: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; PFLAG; National Alliance on Mental Illness; Rainbows International; investor and on board at Lincoln Logs™
Personal quotes: “Four score and seven years ago … etc.”; “Bad promises are better broken than kept”; “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory”; “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
OTHER CONNECTIONS LIKE THIS. DO YOU KNOW …?
Daniel Day-Lewis
Benjamin Walker
Dennis Weaver
Gregory Peck
Henry Fonda
Related articles
- Oscar Countdown: How the Legacy of Lincoln Still Influences Politics Today (nation.time.com)
- For Oscar weekend: Lincoln for best everything! (wisinfo.biz)
- Abraham Lincoln, by James McPherson (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (gudangdaya.com)
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