America's Greatest President

America's Greatest President

The United States is the world's leading superpower, an international protector of democracy and an economic powerhouse that is a leading component in the world economy. To lead such a powerful nation, one must have unique qualities that appeal to a mass portion of the population, as the office of the President of the United States is democratically elected by the people. The President of the United States is the most powerful person on the planet, and the distinct honor of this job has been held by forty-four men through history. Some of these men have been great and powerful leaders that have moved the nation through crisis, while others have been weak and largely forgotten leaders that make no real impact on the office or the country.

It can be hard to determine which of these forty-four men deserve the title of America's Greatest President because of the responsibilities and things that they have undertaken during their periods in office. George Washington, the 1st President, carried the weight of a fledgling nation on his back during the Revolution and is largely responsible for the victory of untrained patriots against the world's greatest empire and army during the American Revolution. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd and longest serving President, guided the nation through dark periods of time such as the Great Depression and World War II. Other presidents like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan have also have vast impacts on the development of this country and are considered some of the best to have ever occupy the Oval Office. However, the title of America's Greatest President, must be reserved for the man that guided a torn and broken nation through its greatest crisis, The Civil War, and whose sole goal was just preservation of the nation that he loved, that man is President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.

Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12th, 1809, to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. Later the family would move to Indiana, where Nancy died of tremetol and where Thomas remarried just months later to Sarah Johnston, when Abraham was just nine years old. The death of his mother alienated him from his father but Abraham quickly bonded with Sarah, who encouraged him to read and pursue an education. Although he would eventually study law, prior to this Lincoln worked as a postmaster and shopkeeper, where he began to pick up social and other important skills that would become useful in his later