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Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865, leading the Union through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, which declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free. His political career developed in part in response to the Supreme Court's 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which he publicly condemned during his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas as a decision that denied Black Americans the rights of citizenship.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as a wartime executive order under his authority as Commander-in-Chief.
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Lincoln publicly condemned the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision during his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, and the case sharpened his emerging national political profile in the years before his election.
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