Each state has its own licensing regulations governing entry as a funeral director. Most require a combination of postsecondary education (typically Associate Degree in Funeral Service Education), passage of the National Board Examination, and service as an apprentice for one or two years.
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer and legislator with a reputation as an eloquent opponent of slavery, shocked many when he overcame several more prominent contenders to win the Republican Partyâs nomination for president in 1860.
This 1865 portrait of President Abraham Lincoln shows him seated and holding his spectacles and pencil. A self-educated man, Lincoln was an avid reader and excellent orator and writer. He was described as an intensely brooding person, plagued by chronic depression.