Education:
No formal education
Occupation:
Lawyer
Religion:
No
formal affiliation
Wife:
Mary
Todd (1818-1882), on November 4, 1842
Children:
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926);
Edward
Baker Lincoln (1846-50);
William Wallace Lincoln (1850-62);
Thomas "Tad"
Lincoln (1853-71)
Father:
Thomas Lincoln
Mother:
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Years in
office:
(March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865)
Born:
February 12, 1809, in Hardin (now Larue)
County, Kentucky
Died:
April
15, 1865, at Petersen's Boarding House in Washington, D.C.
Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination.
Age at
death:
74
Elected
from:
Illinois
Political
Party:
Republican
Other Government
Positions:
Elected to Illinois State Legislature, 1834 Member
of U.S. House of Representatives, 1847-49
Presidential
Salary:
$25,000/year
Vice
President:
Hannibal Hamlin (1861-65);
Andrew Johnson (1865)
Secretary of
State:
William H. Seward (1861-65)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
Salmon P. Chase (1861-64)
William P. Fessenden
(1864-65)
Hugh McCulloch (1865)
Secretary of
War:
Simon Cameron (1861-62)
Edwin M. Stanton (1862-65
Attorney
General:
Edward Bates (1861-64)
James Speed (1864-65)
Postmaster
General:
Montgomery Blair (1861-64)
William Dennison
(1864-65)
Secretary of the
Navy:
Gideon Welles (1861-65)
Secretary of the
Interior:
Caleb B. Smith (1861-63)
John P. Usher (1863-65)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
PO Box 1427