Abraham Lincoln was in politics.
Abraham Lincoln . Politically , Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other , by carefully planned political patronage , and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory . The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln , one of the best-known in American history . The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly , the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois . John Wilkes Booth ( May 10 , 1838 -- April 26 , 1865 ) was an American actor and assassin , who murdered President Abraham Lincoln at Ford 's Theatre in Washington , D.C. on April 14 , 1865 . The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which , along with the Senate , composes the legislature of the United States .