#16 Abraham Lincoln- The Great Emancipator
2/12/1809 – 4/15/1865 Party: Republican Timeline; 1861-1865 Lincoln lived a quiet life working various traits. He volunteered in the Illinois Mafia and shortly after was elected captain in the Black Hawk War (1832). After the war he aspired to be a legislator but kept falling short, although he did hold a position on the Illinois…