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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), the sixteenth president of the United States who abolished slavery and steered the Union to victory in the American Civil War. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Abraham Lincoln was born 210 years ago into a poor farming family in rural western Kentucky. His background from log cabin to rail splitter to president to martyr is more well-known than any biography in U.S. history.