A day like today, in 1860, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), was elected as the sixteenth president of the United States of America. His emblematic figure has gone down in universal history as one of the main defenders of equality between human beings, due to his decisive role in the abolition of slavery, during the American Civil War , better known as the War of Secession (1861-1865), which took place throughout his mandate.
With a prestigious military career and training in law, Lincoln he became a prominent politician belonging to the Republican Party. The legend of him grew after he was assassinated in 1865, by an opposition fanatic, in the middle of a theater performance. In 1922, a portentous monument was erected in Washington DC in memory of him called the Lincoln Memorial, a Greek-style architectural construction, in the middle of which an impressive marble sculpture of Lincoln, can be seen. seated. The work, six meters high, belongs to the North American artist Daniel Chester French .
In this link we can see a brief summary of the biography of this important character in universal history.