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Abraham  Lincoln  was  elected to Congress in 1846. John F.  Kennedy  was  elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham  Lincoln was  elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy  was elected President in 1960. Both were  particularly concerned with civil  rights. Both wives lost their children while  living in the White  House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the  head Lincoln 's secretary was named  Kennedy.. Kennedy's Secretary was named   Lincoln  Both were assassinated by  Southerners. Both were succeeded by  Southerners named Johnson. Andrew  Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in  1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy,  was born in 1908. John  Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born  in 1839.  Lee  Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was  born  in...

  Wedding day photograph of Abraham and Mary taken  November 4, 1842, in Springfield, Illinois, after three years of a stormy courtship and a broken engagement. Their love had endured. Leather gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the night of his assassination. Blood stains are visible at the cuffs. Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's death in 1863, Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House. This caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty.