Thread by @PrezWisdom

Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1809

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“It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence: “The short & simple annals of the poor.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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Kentucky was the birthplace of the first "western" President: Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸!
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Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 is the only President to hold a patent. The patent is an invention to lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river.
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Pawn Stars host Rick Harrison paid $100,000 for this authentic Brady Parlor Card signed by Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸, the image allegedly featured on the famous "Lincoln Penny/One Cent Piece."
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Nine Presidents 🇺🇸 never graduated from college:
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Grover Cleveland
Harry Truman
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Right before he was inaugurated, Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 didn’t know where to place his stovepipe hat. An unlikely source stepped in - political rival Stephen Douglas - who graciously took the hat and held it in his lap
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In his early political years, Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 once impressed Democrat voters by accepting the challenge to throw a cannonball farther than they could - and he did!

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Woodrow Wilson 🇺🇸 said that one of his earliest memories as a kid was overhearing someone say Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 was elected President and that there was going to be a war as a result.
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Since @TheSimpsons debut in 1989, the series has spanned six Presidencies 🇺🇸 (George HW Bush to Joe Biden).

Many Presidents have appeared on the show including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, JFK - including a funny episode where Homer feuded with George HW Bush.
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Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 established the Department of Agriculture in 1862.
Grover Cleveland 🇺🇸 elevated it to a cabinet position in 1889.
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While Confederate and Union forces clashed at Fort Stevens about 5 miles from the White House, Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 observed the fight up close from a parapet. When a surgeon next to Lincoln got shot, Gen. Horatio Wright ordered Lincoln to move out of the line of fire
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Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 never officially nor formally recognized Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederate States of America
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Theodore Roosevelt 🇺🇸 wore a ring containing a lock of Abraham Lincoln's 🇺🇸 hair at his inauguration (1905)
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