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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is one of the most famous Americans ever sold and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life span tale of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who informed himself and became a self-made man, increasing from attorney to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th Leader of the United States. Lincoln efficiently navigated the Union through the Civil War, but didn't live to see his crowning achievement, becoming the first leader assassinated when he was taken at Ford's Movie theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. It's possible that the earth would have appreciated Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) if only because she was the partner of one of America's very best presidents and present for his surprising assassination, but Mary was one of the most unique women to ever be First Sweetheart, and she is at the White House through the country's most trying time. But background hasn't exactly been kind. Mary was dealt a hardcore hand that might have managed to get impossible for her to ever be popular. The Civil War erupted per month after Leader Lincoln had taken office, and Mary was a native Southerner who had relatives struggling for the Confederacy. Making issues worse, Mary appeared out of touch with the times, organizing luxurious balls at a time when the country was literally arriving apart at the seams. As though the exterior pressure wasn't hoping enough, young Willie Lincoln perished in the White House in 1862, sending Mary into such meets of grief that she may have never fully retrieved from even before her husband's assassination and the death of Tad in 1881.
