The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
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President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
Barack Obama became the first African American to win a United States Presidential Election.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
US President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
