NOUN
- 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
How To Use President Lincoln In A Sentence
- he was President Lincoln's successor
- At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted.
- GUPTA: Then there was callamil (ph), actually toxic mercurous chloride taken by President Lincoln, and others, as a laxative. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2008
- In November eighteen sixty-three, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He spoke at the opening of a military cemetery.
- Here is a link to the National Archives site about the Emancipation Proclamation, formally announced by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Kenneth C. Davis: Celebrating Emancipation on Juneteenth (VIDEO)
- And so that these young people will not have died in vain, as President Lincoln said, we have to recommit our country to a sense of community.
- Dixiecrat is the term used in the 1860's for southern democrats who fought Republican President Lincoln as he tried to emancipate the slaves. Eight Edwards delegates now moving to Obama
- Famed treasure-hunter (in Hollywood, this, along with "tomb raider," is a synonym for "archaeologist") Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) has just received shocking news: a shady antiquities collector (Ed Harris) has evidence that an ancestor of Gates conspired in the assassination of President Lincoln. Movie Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
- I do not believe, with the dictionaries, that it had ever anything to do with the Icelandic _hrar_ (_raw_), as it plainly has not in _rareripe_, which means earlier ripe, -- President Lincoln said of The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
- President Lincoln came from Washington to dedicate that cemetery.