Who was the 16th president of US?

Question: Who was the 16th president of US!?
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president!.
He was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre (1!.4 km2) Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky (now part of LaRue County), making him the first president born outside the original Thirteen Colonies!.
His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, two uneducated farmers!.

He married Mary Todd on November 4, 1842!.
She was the daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky!.
The couple had four sons, only one of who survived infancy - Robert Todd Lincoln, born August 1, 1843 in Springfield, Illinois!.

He was elected President on November 6, 1860!.
He beat Democrat Stephen A!. Douglas, John C!. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party!.
He was the first Republican president, winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North: he was not even on the ballot in nine states in the South, and won only 2 of 996 counties in the other Southern states!.

He was assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre while watching the play Our American Cousin!.
Booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0!.44 caliber Henry Deringer at his head, firing at point-blank range!.
Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth but was cut by Booth's knife!. Booth then leapt to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Latin: "Thus always to tyrants") and escaped, despite a broken leg suffered in the leap!.
A twelve-day manhunt ensued, in which Booth was chased by Federal agents (under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin M!. Stanton)!. He was eventually cornered in a Virginia barn house and shot, dying of his wounds soon after!.

Interesting note 1:
Lincoln was supposed to have had a bodyguard to protect him at all times!. But on the night of the play the bodyguard got bored and wandered away allowing Booth to simply walk into the state box and place a gun to the President's head!.

Interesting note 2:
The bed in a nearby hotel (Petersen Boarding House) that Booth slept in the night before he killed Lincoln was the same bed that Lincoln was placed on to die on following the shooting!.

Lincoln is most famous for:
Being president during the American Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation - which brought about the end to slavery
Making the 'Gettysburg Address' speech

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Total 43 President

16 was Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865!.

1 George Washington April 30, 1789 March 4, 1797 No party
2 John Adams March 4, 1797 March 4, 1801 Federalist
3 Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1801 March 4, 1809 Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr
4 James Madison March 4, 1809 March 4, 1817 Democratic-Republican
5 James Monroe March 4, 1817 March 4, 1825 Democratic-Republican Daniel D!. Tompkins
6 John Quincy Adams March 4, 1825 March 4, 1829 Democratic-Republican
National Republican John C!. Calhoun 10
7 Andrew Jackson March 4, 1829 March 4, 1837 Democratic John C!. Calhoun[2]
vacant 11
Martin Van Buren 12
8 Martin Van Buren March 4, 1837 March 4, 1841 Democratic Richard Mentor Johnson 13
9 William Henry Harrison March 4, 1841 April 4, 1841[1] Whig John Tyler 14
10 John Tyler April 4, 1841 March 4, 1845 Whig
No party[3] vacant
11 James K!. Polk March 4, 1845 March 4, 1849 Democratic George M!. Dallas 15
12 Zachary Taylor March 4, 1849 July 9, 1850[1] Whig Millard Fillmore 16
13 Millard Fillmore July 9, 1850 March 4, 1853 Whig vacant
14 Franklin Pierce March 4, 1853 March 4, 1857 Democratic William R!. King[1]
vacant 17
15 James Buchanan March 4, 1857 March 4, 1861 Democratic John C!. Breckinridge 18
16 Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865[4] Republican
National Union[5] Hannibal Hamlin 19
Andrew Johnson 20
17 Andrew Johnson April 15, 1865 March 4, 1869 Democratic
National Union[5] vacant
18 Ulysses S!. Grant March 4, 1869 March 4, 1877 Republican Schuyler Colfax 21
Henry Wilson[1]
vacant 22
19 Rutherford B!. Hayes March 4, 1877 March 4, 1881 Republican William A!. Wheeler 23
20 James A!. Garfield March 4, 1881 September 19, 1881[4] Republican Chester A!. Arthur 24
21 Chester A!. Arthur September 19, 1881 March 4, 1885 Republican vacant
22 Grover Cleveland March 4, 1885 March 4, 1889 Democratic Thomas A!. Hendricks[1]
vacant 25
23 Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889 March 4, 1893 Republican Levi P!. Morton 26
24 Grover Cleveland
(2nd term) March 4, 1893 March 4, 1897 Democratic Adlai E!. Stevenson I 27
25 William McKinley March 4, 1897 September 14, 1901[4] Republican Garret Hobart[1]
vacant 28
Theodore Roosevelt 29
26 Theodore Roosevelt September 14, 1901 March 4, 1909 Republican vacant
Charles W!. Fairbanks 30
27 William Howard Taft March 4, 1909 March 4, 1913 Republican James S!. Sherman[1]
vacant 31
28 Woodrow Wilson March 4, 1913 March 4, 1921 Democratic Thomas R!. Marshall 32
29 Warren G!. Harding March 4, 1921 August 2, 1923[1] Republican Calvin Coolidge 34
30 Calvin Coolidge August 2, 1923 March 4, 1929 Republican vacant
Charles G!. Dawes 35
31 Herbert Hoover March 4, 1929 March 4, 1933 Republican Charles Curtis 36
32 Franklin D!. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 April 12, 1945[1] Democratic John Nance Garner 37
Henry A!. Wallace 39
Harry S!. Truman 40
33 Harry S!. Truman April 12, 1945 January 20, 1953 Democratic vacant
Alben W!. Barkley 41
34 Dwight D!. Eisenhower January 20, 1953 January 20, 1961 Republican Richard Nixon 42
35 John F!. Kennedy January 20, 1961 November 22, 1963[4] Democratic Lyndon B!. Johnson 44
36 Lyndon B!. Johnson November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969 Democratic vacant
Hubert Humphrey 45
37 Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974[2] Republican Spiro Agnew 46
Spiro Agnew[2]
vacant
Gerald Ford 47
38 Gerald Ford August 9, 1974 January 20, 1977 Republican vacant
Nelson Rockefeller
39 Jimmy Carter January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981 Democratic Walter Mondale 48
40 Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 January 20, 1989 Republican George H!. W!. Bush 49
41 George H!. W!. Bush January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993 Republican Dan Quayle 51
42 Bill Clinton January 20, 1993 January 20, 2001 Democratic Al Gore 52
43 George W!. Bush
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