>Born in a log cabin in upstate New York, January 7, 1800>First president born in the 19th century>Also the first president born after George Washington died>No founding-father clout, no inheritance, no connections>Second of nine kids, dad's a tenant farmer>At 15, dad apprentices him to a clothier>At 19, he buys his own freedom for $30>Then walks 100 miles to school>Schoolteacher is a woman two years older than him>He marries her>No college, no pedigree, self-taught>Teaches school by day, reads law by night>Admitted to the bar at 23>Climbs the ladder: state assemblyman, congressman, chairman of Ways and Means, state comptroller, Vice President>Loses the 1844 NY governor race. Just keeps climbing>Become VP under Zachary Taylor>Taylor dies in office in July 1850>Suddenly the freed indentured farm boy is the President of the United States>One of his first acts: gets Congress to fund the first White House library>Serves his entire term with no vice president, because who needs backup>Loads up a squadron of black warships, hands commodore perry a letter, and sails him to Japan>Japan at the time: two centuries of total isolation, told the outside world to stay out or die>Perry pulls up with the gunships, delivers your letter, and Japan suddenly wants to do business>Politest ultimatum in world history, delivered by cannon>Back home the union is tearing itself apart over slavery>Southern fire-eaters threatening secession, Congress in a deadlock>Rams the compromise of 1850 through>California admitted, West organized, Texas bought off, union kept in one piece>Bought the country a decade>Abolitionists call him a sellout, fire-eaters call him a traitor>Never owned a slave in his life>The true based centrist, hated by both teams>Whig party collapses>Last president in American history who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican>1852: his own party refuses to renominate him, so he bides his time>1856: runs on the American Party ticket
>>540507374>"I know nothing," his men reply when asked about their plans>The media calls them the Know Nothings as an insult>America First before it was cool>Wins Maryland outright anyway>1861: Lincoln passes through buffalo on his way to the White House>The new president rides through town in a carriage with the old one at his side>Civil war breaks out>At 61, tells the kids to step aside, and raises a home guard of old veterans: the Union Continentals>A militia of elder chads with rifles, ready to hold the frontier>Meanwhile helped found the University of Buffalo and serves as its first chancellor>Also president of the local historical society>A man of letters AND of lead>Dies in 1874 at age 74, in Buffalo>Last words, while being spoon-fed soup on his deathbed: "the nourishment is palatable"So, why does everyone hate the coolest and chaddest President we ever had?
>>540507390>So, why does everyone hate the coolest and chaddest President we ever had?Who the fuck even knows he existed?That might be part of the problem here.
>>540507374imagine believing jew wikipedia entry. now tell us about all those giant buildings built in under a year back in 1700-1800s
>>540507803Our government was busy constructing other things.
>>540507374>>Southern fire-eaters threatening secession, Congress in a deadlockunfortunately the US did not supply them enough jew semen at the time.
>>540507390>starts the american party (explicit nationalists who don't want nigger slavery but don't want niggers free either, just go away niggers)>losesKind of a blackpill that americans have always been stupid kikesuckers.
>>540508072lincoln planned to send slaves back to africa, but john wilkes booth couldn't let niggers go
>>540508208>ez floor rugpull
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>>540508072Hence why he was mostly forgotten.
>>540507374Sounds pretty based to me. I'll read more about him now.>t.self taught and comes from a family of farmers
Fillmore Fag detected
>>540508208No, Lincoln told gullible retards that he was going to ship off the Africans in order to mollify them while he tried(in vain) to get Thaddeus Stevens and his bunch to be less vocal about their Negrophilia. I have to hand it to abe, even 160 years later retards are still falling for the line.
>>540508208Honestly doubt, was more like the equivalent of Trumps deportation thing. Do a little bit to appease people then abandon the idea. Especially right after a brutal Civil War, the North was not in a mood to fight and the South couldn't be trusted.
>>540507374>>540507390>marries an old whore>raises a home guard of old veterans: the Union Continentals to destroy AmericaSounds like a traitorous y*nkee devil anti-American federalist freedom-hating cuck who the founding fathers would have minecrafted.
>>540508208fake y*nkee devil cuck cope, fuck y*nkee devils, the only mistake the south made was owning slaves in the first place but thats because y*nkee devils tried to economically crush the south with wars and taxes etc
>>540509856You can't view the North at that time as a single entity and have any of the politics of the era make sense. Essentially New England was full of bleeding heart liberal neo-puritans and the New England elites were full-on ravening negrophiliacs and everyone else just wanted to make sure slavery didn't escape the South. The most powerful organizers within the Republican party were all New England elites and Lincoln was chosen because he was a Midwesterner and could muster up broader appeal amongst northerners than say Thaddeus Stevens. That said Lincoln was a political pragmatist mostly out for his own political gain and the Republican party leadership were ideological zealots. Pushing for full deportation would have been career suicide when the congressional Radicals, the most powerful faction, wanted to harvest freedman votes and expand their political influence southward while inflicting niggers on white Southerners to punish them.
>>540507374the 19th century began in 1801
>>540508072Nativists should have won
>>540507374Queen Victoria also called him perhaps the most handsome man she'd ever met
>>540507374Based Filmore appreciator, but was the ai slop pic necessary?
>>540507374>>540507390Thanks, OP. This was a highly informative effortpost.
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>>540507696He's well known in Buffalo. He founded the University at Buffalo, even if they now try to hide it.
