Jeffersonian democracy persisted as an element of the Democratic Party into the early 20th century, as exemplified by William Jennings Bryan (1860â1925), and its themes continue to echo in the 21st century.
Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
That Abraham Lincoln [February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865] was a  distinguished lawyer who made case history is one reason why  he's famous. That he was one of the 'Long Nine' â¦who saw to  it that Springfield became the capital city of the state of  Illinois is a second reason. That he became our 16th U.S.  President elect and re-elect is a third reason.