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Autographs of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (/ˈlɪŋkən/ LINK-ən; 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, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the Confederacy, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, mainly in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois. In 1854, angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, he re-entered politics. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the nation. They formed the Confederate States of America, which began seizing federal military bases in the South. A little over one month after Lincoln assumed the presidency, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S. fort in South Carolina. Following the bombardment, Lincoln mobilized forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the union.
Lincoln, a moderate Republican, had to navigate a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republican parties. His allies, the War Democrats and the Radical Republicans, demanded harsh treatment of the Southern Confederates. He managed the factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people. Anti-war Democrats (called "Copperheads") despised Lincoln, and some irreconcilable pro-Confederate elements went so far as to plot his assassination. His Gettysburg Address became one of the most famous speeches in American history. Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the South's trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and he averted war with Britain by defusing the Trent Affair. In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the slaves in the states "in rebellion" to be free. It also directed the Army and Navy to "recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons" and to receive them "into the armed service of the United States." Lincoln pressured border states to outlaw slavery, and he promoted the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime. Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to heal the war-torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, when he was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
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Current items with a signature of Abraham Lincoln

These are the most current items with a signature of Abraham Lincoln that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

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thumbnail1961 Dr. Wayne C. Temple AUTOGRAPHED Abraham Lincoln booklet Lloyd Ostendorf ---£15.65logo
thumbnail1997 Dr. Wayne C Temple AUTOGRAPHED Abraham Lincoln Wisconsin speech booklet ---£15.65logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln 8x10 Signed photo print presidential seal color Civil War £8.85logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln Presidential Seal Autograph 8 x 10 Photo Photograph bf2£7.60logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln Traveled This Way The Americ Lincoln Knew Signed Robert Shaw£52.50logo
thumbnailHere I Have Lived Paul Angle Signed First Edition Abraham Lincoln Springfield£245.52logo
thumbnailOakleaf Signed Abraham Lincoln Address 1910 Augustana College Rock Island IL£74.09logo
thumbnailSIGNED, NEW, 1ST, President & The Freedom Fighter : Abraham Lincoln, Frederick £20.53logo
thumbnailThe Story of Abraham Lincoln by Nina Brown Baker (1952, Signature Books)£7.04logo
thumbnailUncollected Works of Abraham Lincoln Volume 1 Signed by Rufus Rockwell Wilson£22.59logo

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 (11) was May 2023 with an average selling price of £32.09 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 £31.49.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Abraham Lincoln were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnail1964 Abraham Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth AUTOGRAPHED #d booklet 22 of 40-£32.78logo
thumbnail1974 Abraham Lincoln Civil War Mark Neely SIGNED autographed letter & photo set-£13.63logo
thumbnail2011 The America That Abraham Lincoln Knew-Color Photos, Signed First Edition£11.82logo
thumbnail2014 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1/25 ORIGINAL PRINT ART SKETCH CARD ARTIST SIGNED£19.77logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln 2017 Authentic Artist Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print Card£15.76logo
thumbnailABRAHAM LINCOLN Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation Signed 1863 Civil War Newspaper£51.34logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln from Skeptic to Prophet, SIGNED author Wayne C. Temple - 1st Ed.£14.49logo
thumbnailAbraham Lincoln-The Prairie Vol. 1 & 2 by Carl Sandburg SIGNED 1926£39.17logo
thumbnailABRAHAM LINCOLN: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1939 HC/SC, 4 Vols) SIGNED£231.80logo
thumbnailAnd There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - SIGNED£24.23logo
thumbnailClark Prescott Bissett / ABRAHAM LINCOLN A UNIVERSAL MAN Signed 1st Edition 1923£76.47logo
thumbnailEdward EGGLESTON / The Graysons A Story of Abraham Lincoln Signed 1900£52.63logo
thumbnailFirst Edition, SIGNED By Author. “The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln” 1909£120.63logo
thumbnailhistorical signed autograph : Abraham Lincoln & his assassin John Wilkes Booth£60.00logo
thumbnailThe Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln Artist-Signed Numbered Limited Ed.£87.82logo