- Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated
- Two United States navy ships have been named after Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write
- Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices
- A short time before Abraham Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed he was going to die, and he related his dream to the Senate
- The Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to feature a historic figure. President Abraham Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909
- Abraham Lincoln's political experience before he became president was a two year term in the House of Representatives
- Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot
- Abraham Lincoln created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency