16th President of the USA. Born Kentucky. Assassinated while watching a very popular British play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's theatre, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.
For a list of all the US presidents that appear on London Remembers see John F. Kennedy.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Abraham Lincoln
Copy of the statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago (other copies being in Mexico Cit...
From Pastscape: "... the octagonal spire ... is decorated by two groups of in...
{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:} Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor Presented t...
Member of the Fishmongers Company. Elected Treasurer in 1699. Primewarden in 1724. Will dated 26 February 1741.
Co-churchwarden of St Jude's in 1871. He was born in 1805 in Scotland. On 10 June 1847 he married Ann Reader (1823-1897) in St Peter and St Paul Church, East Milton Road, Milton-Next-Gravesend, Ke...
American statesman. South Carolina planter and slave owner. 1783 negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
Socialist politician and campaigner. Born Nottinghamshire. Largely self-educated. Came to London as a young man. Joined the Labour party and the South Place Ethical Society (of which he later becam...
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