Premise: Abraham Lincoln . Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South , he swept the North and was elected president in 1860 . On April 14 , 1865 , five days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee , Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth , a Confederate sympathizer . The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln , one of the best-known in American history .
Hypothesis: Abraham Lincoln was dead by 1858.
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