Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.
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His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.
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