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the 16th president of the USA.
He takes a

special place in the list of American presidents.
He didn't quit and became one of the greatest presidents in the history of the USA.

in the Middle West.
His family were pioneers.
Lived

in poverty.

to school, he liked to read.
He taught himself

by reading the books he could get as the Bible, Aesop’s “Fables” and “Robinson Crusoe”

Ran for state legislature- lost
1838- Sought to become speaker

of the state legislature- defeated
1840- Sought to become elector- defeated
1843- Ran for Congress- lost
1846- Ran for Congress again- this time he won- went to Washington and did a good job

1860- Elected president of the United States

My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other

out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, “It’s a slip and not a fall”
Abraham Lincoln
After losing a senate race

statesman is well- known. Little known is that he

was a great lover of poetry. His speeches and writings are filled with great and beautiful prose, but he wrote only three poems.

to Indiana, where he was raised. The place and

the people aroused memories of his childhood that prompted him to write the poems.

My childhood’s home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There’s pleasure in it too.