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16th President of the United States in 1861, he defeated the Confederacy of Southern states who seceded after his election. He was the main commander of Northern troops during the Civil War. In 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all the United States free from slavery. He is also the founder of the Republican Party. He was killed at Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865.