Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States during the American Civil War in the 1860s.
Biography
Abraham Lincoln was once an American Whig congressman. In Quincy, Illinois in 1858, Lincoln spoke against slavery as a "moral, a social and a political wrong". He and the Republican Party wanted to prevent it institution from growing any larger and to eventually end it.
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November 1860. Many Southerners in the United States saw him wanting to abolish slavery as hostile toward there way of life and economy. This ultimately caused South Carolina to secede from the United States and the start of the Civil War in 1861. (PROSE: Blood and Hope [+]Loading...["Blood and Hope (novel)"])
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation outlawed slavery. (PROSE: Peacemaker [+]Loading...["Peacemaker (novel)"])
In 1863, the Third Doctor gave President Lincoln a sketched map that he had made of the Confederate lines at Gettysburg. Lincoln gave the map to General Ulysses S. Grant, thus helping the Union Army to win the Battle of Gettysburg. (COMIC: Backtime [+]Loading...["Backtime (comic story)"])
On 19 November of that year, Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister watched the speech on the Time-Space Visualiser. (TV: "The Executioners" [+]Part of The Chase, Loading...{"namedep":"The Executioners (1)","1":"The Chase (TV story)"}) According to one account which claimed that the Visualiser was a hoax, the "Lincoln" seen on the Visualiser was not the real Lincoln but a human slave of the Pursuer-Daleks who was made to re-enact the event as a deception for the Doctor and his companions. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide [+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"])
Peri Brown once suggested that she, the Fifth Doctor and Erimem should go and see Lincoln delivering the Address. (AUDIO: The Roof of the World [+]Loading...["The Roof of the World (audio story)"])
The transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme once shared breakfast with Lincoln on the White House lawn after saving the United States from "Martian invaders" for the third time. She told George Strangeways that she and Lincoln had had "such a laugh." (AUDIO: The Panda Invasion [+]Loading...["The Panda Invasion (audio story)"])
On 9 April 1865, the Fifth Doctor saved Lincoln from an assassination attempt in Richmond, Virginia. The would-be assassin was Aaron Eddowes. (PROSE: Blood and Hope [+]Loading...["Blood and Hope (novel)"])
Only a few days later, on 14 April 1865, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe would become embroiled in a plot to prevent Lincoln from being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight [+]Loading...["Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)"]) Conversely, the Eighth Doctor would later tell his companion Charley Pollard that he once attempted to convince Lincoln not to go to the theatre. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell [+]Loading...["Minuet in Hell (audio story)"])
Legacy
By the 20th century, a waxwork replica of Lincoln was in Madame Tussauds when the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw visited the building to investigate the first Auton invasion of Earth. (TV: Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
- Abraham Lincoln is one of only three real-world US Presidents to be portrayed on-screen in televised Doctor Who, not counting the wax dummies from Spearhead from Space. The others are Barack Obama, who appeared in The End of Time, and Richard Nixon, who appeared in The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon.