Autographs of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
Born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln was raised on the frontier. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative. Angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which opened the territories to slavery, he became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, becoming the first Republican president. His victory prompted a majority of the slave states to begin to secede and form the Confederate States. A month after Lincoln assumed the presidency, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.
As a moderate Republican, Lincoln had to navigate conflicting political opinions from contentious factions during the war effort. He closely supervised the Union's strategy and tactics, including the selection of generals and the implementation of a naval blockade of Southern ports. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus in April 1861, an action that Chief Justice Roger Taney found in Ex parte Merryman that only Congress could do, and he averted war with Britain by defusing the Trent Affair. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the slaves in the states "in rebellion" to be free. On November 19, 1863, he delivered the Gettysburg Address, which became one of the most famous speeches in American history. He promoted the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which, in 1865, abolished chattel slavery. Following his re-election in 1864, he sought to heal the war-torn nation through Reconstruction.
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Current items with a signature of Abraham Lincoln
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Traded items with a signature of Abraham Lincoln
The most expensive item with a signature of Abraham Lincoln (ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT SIGNED CONGRESS DOCUMENT AUTHENTIC + COA 1865 USA) was sold in October 2021 for £22,290.40 while the cheapest item (ABRAHAM LINCOLN Signed Document - former US President (16th)) found a new owner for £0.99 in February 2016. The month with the most items sold (63) was June 2025 with an average selling price of £56.09 for an autographed item of Abraham Lincoln. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2021 with £11,149.94 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was September 2014. In average, an autographed item from Abraham Lincoln is worth £37.11.
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