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ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT ON THIS DAY IN 1860.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] only to be assassinated as the war was coming to an end.[9] Before becoming the first Republican elected to the Presidency, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[10][11] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his time in office, he contributed to the effort to preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.
Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. Lincoln successfully defused a war scare with the United Kingdom in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election.
Opponents of the war (also known as "Copperheads") criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with these road blocks, Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
QUOTES BY PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN OR DIED ON THIS DAY:
"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
Colley Cibber
(11/06/1671 – 12/11/1757)
English actor, playwright
"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
Catherine the Great
(05/02/1762 – 11/06/1796)
Russian leader
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
King Charles X
(10/09/1757 – 11/06/1836)
French royalty
"I understand the hero keeps getting into bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way."
Harold Ross
(11/06/1892 – 12/06/1951)
US writer, "New Yorker" founder , on Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms"
"Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(05/07/1840 – 11/06/1893)
Russian composer
"Try praising your wife even if it does frighten her at first."
Billy Sunday
(11/19/1862 – 11/06/1935)
US evangelist
"Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead."
Jon Carroll
(11/06/1943 – )
US columnist, humorist
"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
Sally Field
(11/06/1946 – )
US actor
"Don't think of him as a Republican, think of him as the man I love; and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you."
Maria Shriver
(11/06/1955 – )
US royalty , on introducing hubby Arnold to Uncle Ted
"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."
Gene Tierney
(11/19/1920 – 11/06/1991)
US actor
FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY:
Famous Birthdays On This Day:
1479 - Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 - Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey (1520-66)
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1550 - Karin MÃ¥nsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1822 - Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1832 - Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism
1851 - Charles H Dow, co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
1854 - John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)
1878 - Ernest Irving, composer
1931 - Mike Nichols, [Peschowsky], director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1943 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1946 - Sally Field, Pasadena Calif, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1955 - Maria Shriver, [Mrs A Schwarzenegger], Chic, newscaster (Sunday Today)
1964 - Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004
