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Abraham Lincoln ( Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865 ), Republican, American statesman, thinker, abolitionist of black slavery. The 16th president of the United States, his term of office, the United States civil war, known as the civil war, Lincoln firmly opposed the state division. He abolished the slave system in the rebel States, and enacted the homestead act, the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln defeated the southern separatists and upheld the right of the United States of America and its territory to equal human rights, regardless of ethnic origin. Shortly after the end of the civil war, Lincoln was assassinated, the first American president to be assassinated, the first Republican president, and many times as the greatest president Abraham Lincoln