"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

Three veterans are on the ballot in the June gubernatorial primary in New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill, who served in the U.S. Navy ...

Chief Charles Udeogaranya rejected the idea of an automatic APC ticket for the 2027 presidential race, following President ...

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner in East Peoria, Illinois, emphasizing the ...

Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of ...

Outside Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.Credit ... between when Lincoln first ran for office (1832) and when he was elected to the Illinois House of Reps (1834).

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky ... by your constitutionally elected president of the United States of America, a large share may welcome us here from across the river ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati ... campaigning to be the Republican candidate for president in the 1860 election. In Cincinnati on Sept. 17, 1859, Lincoln spoke from the portico ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was ...

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Born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rose to the presidency in 1861. Hulton Archive / Getty Images America’s presidential election is still more than a month away.

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge ...