Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln preserved the Union through the Civil War while fundamentally transforming it, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to make abolition a war aim and redefining American democracy through the Gettysburg Address as a nation 'dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.'
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