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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
Before he became the a president he was an American statesman, politician, and a lawyer.
Andrew Johnson was his Vice President, and the man who he competed against to become president and defeated was Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge.
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