Exemplary Leaders: Abraham Lincoln
•He was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.
•He is an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States. He won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.
•His politics were guided by a basic moral precept and practical judgment.