林肯的英语简介

1809.2.12, birthday

1818(9 years old), the mother die.

1831(22 years old), go into business the failure.

1832(23 years old), the election state the councilman fail to be elected.

At the same year(23 years old), the work threw.Want to study in the law school, but did not get the admission.

1833(24 years old), borrow money to go into business toward the friend.

At the end of at the same year, again bankrupt.Connect down, he spends 16 years to just repay fully the obligation.

1834(25 years old), again campaign the state councilman, won this time.
1835(26 years old), will soon get married after betroth, the fiancee died.

1836(27 years old), the complete breakup of spirit, lies sick in bed six months.

1838(29 years old), fight for become the state councilman of spokesman- have no successfully.

1840(31 years old), fight for becoming the voter- fail to be elected.

1843(34 years old), attend the national legislature election- failed to be elected again.

1846(37 years old), attend the national legislature election again- won an election this time.Go to Washington's special area, express can the turn can order.

1848(39 years old), look for the parlia****rian to serve another term, failure.

1849(40 years old), think the work that serves as the land bureau chief in oneself's state, encounter the brush-off.

1854(45 years old), campaign the American senator, fail to be elected.

1856(47 years old), fight for the nomination of the vice-president in Republican party- get 100 of the ticket shortage.

1860(51 years old), win an election the American president.Become one of the greatest presidents in American history.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the U.S. president who won the Civil War and ended slavery, topped a list of the 100 most influential American figures in shaping U.S. history, a survey released Tuesday said.

The Atlantic Monthly magazine asked 10 notable historians to rank the Americans they felt had the greatest impact on U.S. history.

Other figures who made the top 10 included U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Also included were Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, chief of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and inventor Thomas Edison.

More than 30 writers including Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were in the top 100. More contemporary figures included musician Bob Dylan, golfer Tiger Woods and consumer activist Ralph Nader.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates ranks 54th on the list. He received the most votes among those still living.

Editor James Bennet said in a statement the list was designed to stimulate debate about who had affected the country and how it happened.

For example, he asked: “How can Bill Gates be ahead of Elvis Presley, or Presley ahead of Lewis and Clark,” referring to the early 19th century overland expedition to the Pacific Coast by explorers Capt. Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark.

Those who compiled the list included Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who said she looked for people “who made it possible for people to lead expanded lives — materially, psychologically, culturally and spiritually.”

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12th, 1809. The son of Thomas Lincoln, a frontiersman whose own father had been killed by Native Americans, the years leading up to Abrahams adulthood were marred by poverty. His mother, Nancy, died of "milk sickness" when Abraham was ten, and the family moved to Indiana. The year after, Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston, who encouraged Abrahams education. Though he had little formal schooling, he could read and write. In 1830, when Abraham was twenty-one years old, his family moved again, this time to Illinois, and Abraham decided to go his own way.

Abraham joined the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War. In 1832, he ran and was defeated for Illinois State Legislature, but in 1834, at age twenty-four, he ran again and was elected as a Whig and served for four terms. After receiving his law license in 1836, Lincoln married Mary Todd on November 4th, 1842. In 1847, Lincoln was elected to and served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1856, Lincoln changed his political alliance to the Republican Party, but lost a Senate election to Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. By 1860, Lincoln was a well-known presidential candidate. He was inaugurated in March of 1861 as the sixteenth President of the United States.