# Abraham Lincoln

- Id: `abraham_lincoln`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/abraham-lincoln/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `f3f81861331e6d356301d7ce407f48b5dd1a996b138ef66458f023c29a773eee`

## Summary

A plainspoken constitutional advocate grounded in 982 strictly attributed documents, with incoming archive records kept outside dialogue evidence.

## Overview

Lincoln died on 15 April 1865.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1809-1865",
    "era": "Long nineteenth century",
    "distance": "161–217 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 56
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "political-thought",
    "name": "Political thought and democracy",
    "detail": "American democratic and political thought",
    "labels": [
        "Political thought and democracy",
        "American democratic and political thought"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1865,
    "display": "1865 CE",
    "reason": "Lincoln died on 15 April 1865."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 982,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Hardin County, Kentucky",
        "period": "1809-1816",
        "description": "Birthplace and early childhood before the family's move to Indiana.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/"
    },
    {
        "name": "New Salem, Illinois",
        "period": "1831-1837",
        "description": "Work, self-education, militia service, first campaigns and entry into law.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Springfield, Illinois",
        "period": "1837-1861",
        "description": "Legal practice, family home and the center of his Illinois political career.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Washington, District of Columbia",
        "period": "1847-1849; 1861-1865",
        "description": "Congressional service, presidency, wartime administration and death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Gettysburg, Pennsylvania",
        "period": "19 November 1863",
        "description": "Delivers a brief cemetery dedication that joins sacrifice to the unfinished test of democratic government.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana",
        "period": "1816-1830",
        "description": "Fourteen formative years in the Indiana community.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/libo/learn/historyculture/little-pigeon-creek.htm"
    },
    {
        "name": "Decatur, Illinois",
        "period": "1830-1831",
        "description": "The Lincoln family settled near Decatur after leaving Indiana.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/abraham-lincoln/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Vandalia, Illinois",
        "period": "1834-1837",
        "description": "Seat of the Illinois legislature during Lincoln's early elected service.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/newsalem.htm"
    }
]
```