President Abraham Lincoln
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Character Key:
Display Name:
President Abraham Lincoln
Sort Name:
Lincoln, Abraham
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
U.S. President
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Sunday, February 12, 1809
Cause of Death:
Murder
Real?:
Yes
Other Texts:
Biography:
Even after the South has surrendered, Sutpen still longs to "take his pistol . . . and ride single-handed into Washington and kill Lincoln, dead now" - at least when he's drunk (540). As the 16th President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln led the Union against the Confederacy that Sutpen fought for, but as the story's narrator dispassionately notes, he died just after the surrender, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, another southerner who refused to be reconciled to defeat.
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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