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Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth President of the United States (1809–1865) who led the nation through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolishing slavery in the Confederate states. His assassination at Ford's Theatre made him a martyr of national unity and is widely ranked the greatest American president.
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