Abraham lincoln

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• Abraham Lincoln had only eighteen months of formal schooling.
• Abraham Lincoln moved from Kentucky to Indiana to Illinois before becoming President.
• Abraham Lincoln's mother died at age 34, when he was only nine years old.
• Abraham Lincoln was elected Captain of an Illinois militia company during the Black Hawk War.
• Abraham Lincoln closely supervised and selected his military generals, including Ulysses S. Grant.
• Abraham Lincoln invoked presidential War Powers by allowing the imprisonment of over 18,000 suspected Confederates without trial.
• Abraham Lincoln was originally a member of the Whig party.
• Abraham Lincoln was named the greatest President in American history by a 2007 Gallup Poll, ahead of #2 Ronald Reagan and #3 John F. Kennedy.