Trivia
He was the first President to be born out of the thirteen states. Additionally, he was the first president born in Kentucky and the first to wear a beard.
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He was the first US President to be assassinated.
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He is the only president to have a patent to his name. The patent was for a device which assisted in freeing the ships that would get aground in shallow waters.
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Interestingly, unlike other presidents’, he would keep all his important papers, mail, bankbook and so on in his stovepipe hat. Probably, this is the reason why it was called his ‘desk and memorandum book’ and sometimes his ‘filing cabinet’.
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He is responsible for the institution of Thanksgiving Day in United States of America. Until then, the day was celebrated sporadically and on irregular dates. He declared the final Thursday in the month of November as Thanksgiving Day.
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A man with outstanding capability, he earned quite a few nicknames in his life, some of which are ‘Honest Abe’, ‘The Rail Splitter’, ‘The Great Emancipator’, and ‘Father Abraham’.