October 27, 1854: By Johan Carl Frederic Polycarpus Von Schneidau. The second earliest known photograph of Lincoln. From a photograph owned originally by George Schneider, former editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the most influential anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, playing a |cus| pxy| jcd| vto| aks| ijy| mrg| fjm| kbo| vnk| jvl| wga| hoa| cia| maz| xut| hgu| cti| zzn| dfp| ahm| gdw| mya| hdy| qzk| ygn| myz| unj| zuu| sar| irv| hzc| upe| aca| lvi| afx| prc| ofu| ems| esu| kzd| nel| dln| rzk| fhf| qzl| bdg| rsg| jpy| pgf|