80 Administrative Facts About US Presidents For History Buffs – Part 2

Abraham Lincoln created the Secret service just hours before he was assassinated.

52. Both Tom Hanks & George Clooney are related to Abraham Lincoln.

53. The last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.

54. There was a plot to kill the Vice President Andrew Johnson (George Atzerodt) and Secretary of State William H. Seward (Lewis Powell) concurrently with the Lincoln assassination. The Secretary of State was stabbed in the face but lived, and the assailant who was to kill the Vice President got drunk instead.

55. Abraham Lincoln suffered from a lifelong "melancholy," a condition we now call clinical depression. His suffering was so severe, that his community had to put him under a "suicide watch."

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the cotton workers of Manchester, the UK to thank them for their stance on anti-slavery.

57. Abraham Lincoln successfully defended a criminal defendant by using an almanac to challenge a man's assertion that he saw the murderer "By the light of the moon."

58. There is a photo of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession and Theodore Roosevelt as a child is seen watching from his window.

59. Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, was once saved from being hit by a train when a man grabbed him off the tracks. The man was Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth.

60. Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx exchanged friendly letters and discussed their similar views on the exploitation of labor.

Abraham Lincoln became the first and only president to register a patent; the invention, which was never produced, was an idea for lifting boats over obstructions if they got stuck.

62. In 1840, Abraham Lincoln and four other legislators jumped out of a window in order to prevent a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois state bank.

63. Abraham Lincoln used to tell a long joke about a man carving a turkey at a fancy party who puts so much force into the effort that he rips a huge fart in front of everyone.

64. Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression. He was scared to carry knives because he was afraid he'd kill himself.

65. Donald Trump tried to sue an author for $5 billion. The reason was that the author called him a millionaire instead of a billionaire.

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year.

67. John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous men in America and Abraham Lincoln was one of his fans.

68. Since Abraham Lincoln's burial, his coffin had been moved 17 times and opened 6 times. On the last time the coffin was opened (1901) his face was still perfectly recognizable

69. After Abraham Lincoln was called out for refusing to indicate whether or not he wanted to go Heaven or Hell he said "I did not come here with the idea of being singled out, but since you ask, I will reply with equal candor. I intend to go to Congress."

70. Abraham Lincoln supported colonizing blacks in South America or sending them back to Africa.

Karl Marx described Abraham Lincoln as being "a man neither to be browbeaten by adversity nor intoxicated by success."

72. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Women are the only things that cannot hurt me that I am afraid of."

73. In 1861, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italy's independence, volunteered his services to President Abraham Lincoln and was offered a Major General's commission in the U.S. Army. His sole condition was that the war's objective is declared as the abolition of slavery.

74. The first Stiller to use the sour mash method was James Crow, leading to Old Crow Kentucky Bourbon. The favorite of both Ulysses Grant and Abraham Lincoln during the war, it was referred to as "the only good thing to come out of the South," by Northern troops. You can still buy it today.

75. Abraham Lincoln is the only president in U.S. history to also have been a licensed bartender.