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My Favorites: Song: "The Battle Cry of Freedom" Book/newspapers: "Oh, Captain! My Captain!" (poem) by Walt Whitman and The National News (newspaper) Film: "Cold Mountain" Colors: Red, White, and Blue Friends: General Ulysses S. Grant, John Stewart of The Daily Show, and President Barack Obama Personal Background: Birthplace: Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky in a one-room cabin Hometown: Springfield, Illinois Education: Attended 18 months of schooling, self-taught, avid reader Training and occupation: Self-taught lawyer Height: Six feet, 4 inches plus a stovepipe hat Weight: Thin but strong! Goals: Professional goals: President of the United States, Maintain the Union Personal goals: To survive all of the personal and professional tragedies that life has dealt me Interests: With whom would I like to have dinner? Hero: Henry Clay Hobbies/Sports: Chopping wood and wrestling Quote: "Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Sample Blog Post: Posted to the Blue and the Gray Blog on July 5, 1863: Fellow citizens, the news has just reached me that the Battle at Gettysburg is thankfully over, but not before tens of thousands of brave American soldiers died on the battlefield. We are American people. We must preserve the Union. Together, we can overcome our problems. Let us stop this war of brother against brother. We are all blue; we are all gray. We are all one nation. Political views and affiliations: Party: Whig Actions in current events: Speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Ambition: To live to see the Union preserved and return to my home in Springfield, Illinois Work Cited
"Abraham Lincoln, Head-and-shoulders Portrait, Facing Front." Library of Congress. Web. 15 Jan. 2011. <http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a53289/>. About | Web Support | How-to Chapters | Pathfinders | Workshops | Presentations Launched: December 2010 |