One President of America was Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln . Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South , he swept the North and was elected president in 1860 . Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as among the greatest U.S. presidents . The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln , one of the best-known in American history . The United States presidential election of 1864 was the 20th quadrennial presidential election , held on Tuesday , November 8 , 1864 .