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Abraham Lincoln: Representative (W-IL), President (R) during our greatest internal crisis, and Senator (R-CA).

He has had perhaps the greatest impact on American politics of any American politician. His memoirs are best sellers to this very day.

My opinion is that he was our brightest light during our darkest hour. That without him the Republican Party wouldn't be the liberal, progressive party it is today, and might not even exist at all (in a form recognizable to us) without him. Without him our country would be split in two, or if not then the gash would not have healed as quickly or smoothly as it did in our world. He was the greatest American President yet to serve in office.

What are your opinions on Abraham Lincoln?

(OOC: POD is Booth's gun jammed, after successfully setting Reconstruction on the course he wanted before the end of his second term he retired to California. He eventually took a job as lawyer to pay the bills and from there things escalated until he found himself returning to Washington as a Senator for a single term. He dies peacefully of old age at 100, in bed and surrounded by his grandchildren.)
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