| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Lincoln, Abraham |
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| DATES: | 1809–1865 |
| The 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), who led the Union during the Civil War and emancipated slaves in the South (1863). He was assassinated shortly after the end of the war by John Wilkes Booth.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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