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Why Lincoln?

  1. LINCOLN is our inspiration, and we want to "rouse the Lincoln in you all".
  2. LINCOLN has inspired more actors and presenters than all other Presidents combined.
  3. LINCOLN is acknowledged as America's greatest President.
  4. LINCOLN is the standard against whom all Presidents are measured.
  5. LINCOLN is history (1809 - 1865) and legend (for today and forever).
  6. LINCOLN is our tallest president (6'4") a man to look up to.
  7. LINCOLN is the only President with a patent for an invention.
  8. LINCOLN's face is the most recognizable face in America.
  9. LINCOLN was the first President to grow whiskers.
  10. LINCOLN is one of America's great orators and writers.
  11. LINCOLN was both melancholy and mirthful.
  12. LINCOLN wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and freed slaves.
  13. LINCOLN was the first President to be assassinated.
  14. LINCOLN is regarded as the greatest theologian of the Civil War.
  15. LINCOLN was the first President not to be born in one of the 13 original states.
  16. LINCOLN won the presidency without a majority of the popular vote.
  17. LINCOLN had less formal education than any other American President.
  18. LINCOLN did not attend college, yet he received three honorary degrees.
  19. LINCOLN had many nicknames such as Honest Abe, the Railsplitter, the Liberator, the Emancipator, the Ancient One, the Martyr.
  20. More books have been written about LINCOLN than any other American.