John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the America, portion from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 through Second World War in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned into political. With the encouragement and grooming of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Kennedy represented Massachusetts's eleventh congressional district in the U.S.

House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential selection, one of the nearest in American history. He was the second youngest President, the first President born in the 20th century, and the youngest nominated to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is the first Catholic and the first Irish American president, and is the only president to have win a Pulitzer Prize.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln served is the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his murder in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its almost internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful applicant for election to the U.S. Senate.

As an outspoken opponent of the development of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was engaged primarily with the defeated of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduce measures that resulted in the removal of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.