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Since his death in 1865, Abraham Lincoln has been an iconic American figure depicted—usually favorably or heroically—in many forms. Lincoln has often been portrayed by Hollywood, almost always in a flattering light.^[1][2]

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Statues of Abraham Lincoln[edit]

Statues of Abraham Lincoln can be found in other countries. In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, is a 13-foot (4 m) high bronze statue, a gift from the United States, dedicated in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The U.S. received a statue of Benito Juárez in exchange, which is in Washington, D.C. Juárez and Lincoln exchanged friendly letters during the American Civil War, Mexico remembers Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican–American War. (For his part, Juárez refused to aid the Confederacy and jailed those Confederates who sought his help.) There is also a statue in Tijuana, Mexico, showing Lincoln standing and destroying the chains of slavery. There are at least three statues of Lincoln in the United Kingdom—one in Parliament Square in London by Augustus St. Gaudens, one in Manchester by George Grey Barnard and another in Edinburgh by George Bissell. There is also a bust of the President at St Andrews Church in Hingham, Norfolk, where Lincoln's ancestors lived. In Havana, Cuba, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln in the Museum of the Revolution, a small statue of him in front of the Abraham Lincoln School, and a bust of him near the Capitolio. In Quito, Ecuador, a statue of Lincoln can be found in the Plaza Abraham Lincoln. Avenida Abraham Lincoln, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is one of the capital city's most important and trafficked streets.

Poetry[edit]

Walt Whitman was especially fascinated by Lincoln during the Civil War and wrote several famous poems about him. Lincoln was fond of Whitman's poetry even before the war.^[3]

• O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman, 1865
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman, 1865
• Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day, Walt Whitman, 1865
• This Dust Was Once the Man, Walt Whitman, 1871

Songs[edit]

Over 1000 pieces of music spanning every generation since his presidency have been written about Lincoln.^[4]

• Abraham, Martin and John, written by Dick Holler, recorded by Dion (1968). This popular song first appeared under a sheet music cover picturing Mount Rushmore.^[5]

Classical music[edit]

• A Lincoln Portrait, by Aaron Copland, for narrator and orchestra. The subject is Lincoln's words. Contains excerpts from his 1862 annual address to Congress, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, and the Gettysburg Address. The narrator is usually a distinguished person the orchestra wishes to honor; among them have been Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama.

Film, drama and fiction[edit]

Lincoln has been portrayed in many films and TV shows since 1908.^[6][7]

1846[edit]

Lincoln himself wrote poetry and at least one piece of fiction loosely based upon one of the murder cases he defended as a young lawyer. In April 1846, The Quincy Whig published Lincoln's short story under the title 'A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder'. The story was republished in March 1952 by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and retitled 'The Trailor Murder Mystery.' Lincoln refers to his own unnamed character as 'the defense' and 'the writer of this'.^[8]

Late 1800s[edit]

• In Jules Verne's 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a fictitious steam frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, is sent to hunt down the 'monster' that has been attacking ships at sea, and is attacked itself. Captain Nemo also has a portrait of Lincoln hanging in his study on board the Nautilus. In the prequel The Mysterious Island, the five shipwrecked Union prisoners name the island which they discover, 'Lincoln Island'.
• The German writer Karl May wrote two stories concerning Canada Bill Jones: Ein Self-man (1878) and Three carde monte (1879). The narrator meets several times with the young Abraham Lincoln and together they oppose 'Kanada-Bill'. Both stories have in common the first meeting of the heroes: The narrator finds Lincoln in a forest training to orate.^[9]

1900–1909[edit]

• The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), a best-selling novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., which portrays Lincoln as sympathetic to the South. Made into the movie Birth of a Nation. (Text of The Clansman.)
• The first motion picture based on Lincoln was 1908 film The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln. Directed by Van Dyke Brooke, the film shows Lincoln pardoning a sentry who fell asleep on duty, a theme that would be depicted repeatedly in other silent era shorts. This era is also when the first Abraham Lincoln impersonators originated, and the modern idea of what he sounded like is derived from these.^[7]

1910–1919[edit]

• Abraham Lincoln's Clemency (1910), played by Leopold Wharton
• The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln (1913), novel by Thomas Dixon Jr.
• When Lincoln Paid (1913), played by Francis Ford
• The Sleeping Sentinel (1914), played by George Steele
• The Birth of a Nation (1915), played by Joseph Henabery. Lincoln's assassination is the central event of the movie, dividing it into two halves (with an intermission).
• The Crisis (1916), played by Sam D. Drane

1920–1929[edit]

• The Copperhead (1920), played by Nicholas Schroell
• The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), played by George A. Billings
• The Iron Horse (1924), played by Charles Edward Bull

1930–1939[edit]

• Abraham Lincoln (1930) played by Walter Huston
• The Phantom President (1932) played by Charles Middleton
• The Littlest Rebel (1935) played by Frank McGlynn Sr.
• The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) played by Frank McGlynn Sr.
• Lincoln in the White House (1939), played by Frank McGlynn Sr.^[10]
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) played by Henry Fonda

1940–1949[edit]

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) played by Raymond Massey
• Virginia City (1940) played by Victor Kilian

1950–1959[edit]

• The Tall Target (1951), played by Leslie Kimmell
• San Antone (1953), played by Richard Hale
• Prince of Players (1955), played by Stanley Hall
• Apache Ambush (1955), played by James Griffith
• Black Friday, a 1955 episode of Medic, played by Austin Green
• The Story of Mankind (1957), played again by Austin Green

1960–1969[edit]

• The Passersby, a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone, played again by Austin Green
• How the West Was Won (1962), played again by Raymond Massey
• The Chase, a 1965 episode of Doctor Who, played by Robert Marsden
• Treasure of the Aztecs (1965), played by Jeff Corey
• The Fortune Cookie (1966), voiced by John Anderson
• Death Trap, a 1966 episode of The Time Tunnel, played by Ford Rainey
• The Savage Curtain, a 1969 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, a clone of Lincoln made in the year 2269, played by Lee Bergere

1970–1979[edit]

• The Hall of Presidents opens at Walt Disney World featuring all 36 presidents to date, including Lincoln (1971)
• In The Great Man's Whiskers (1972) Dennis Weaver portrays Lincoln.
• In Sandburg's Lincoln (1974), Hal Holbrook plays the title character
• In 'Sex and Violence', a 1975 pilot for The Muppet Show, an Abraham Lincoln Muppet (performed by John Lovelady) appears as part of the Muppet version of Mount Rushmore.
• The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977), played again by John Anderson.
• George MacDonald Fraser's 1971 novel Flash for Freedom! features a young Abraham Lincoln at the time that he was a Congressman. Anti-hero narrator and self-confessed cad Harry Flashman describes him as having 'the makings of as big a scoundrel as I am myself'.
• In the Belgian comic series Lucky Luke, Abraham Lincoln appears in a cameo as the president of the United States in the album 'Le Fil qui chante' released in 1977 by Morris (artist) and Rene Goscinny (writer). He commissions the construction of the First Transcontinental Telegraph and Lucky Luke volunteers to help. Lincoln re-appears in the comic 'Lucky Luke contre Pinkerton' released in 2010 by Achde (artist) and Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista (writers), where he assigns Allan Pinkerton to be his personal guard.

1980–1989[edit]

• Lincoln impersonator Rex Hamilton was introduced in the opening credits of each episode of Police Squad! shooting back at John Wilkes Booth, though he would not further appear in any episodes.^[11]
• Gregory Peck portrayed Lincoln in the 1982 television movie, The Blue and the Gray.
• In the miniseries North and South, Hal Holbrook played Lincoln (once again) in Books I and II
• The 1987 American TV series Amerika displays an America occupied by Soviet troops. Lincoln's image is displayed along Marx's and Lenin's in parades, exemplifying the re-interpretation of American symbols by the new state.
• He appeared in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie inside the State Home of the Ugly for being 'too skinny', along with Mohandas Gandhi for being 'too bald' and Santa Claus for being 'too fat'.
• In the sketch comedy series SCTV Network 90, Joe Flaherty plays a time-traveler Lincoln going to the past to chase the child John Wilkes Booth through time with a gun to prevent his assassination, repeatedly failing attempts to kill Booth. Catherine O'Hara plays Mrs. Lincoln who asks her time traveler husband where her future is to lead her. When he casually responds 'in an insane asylum,' she proclaims her foresight ability, responding 'I knew it!'
• Based on a novel by Gore Vidal, the 1988 telefilm Lincoln starred Sam Waterston in the title role, and Mary Tyler Moore as his wife.
• Robert V. Barron appeared as Lincoln in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and in episodes of Out of This World (#2.15, 1988).
• Appears as Joshua Speed in Parke Godwin's sci-fi novel The Snake Oil Wars.
• Appears in a This Is America, Charlie Brown episode titled 'The Smithsonian and the Presidency', with his segment focusing on the Gettysburg Address. He is voiced by Frank Welker.

1990–1999[edit]

• The Civil War (1990) Sam Waterston played Lincoln
• In the Red Dwarf episode 'Meltdown', Lincoln (played by Jack Klaff) was featured as a Waxdroid in a theme park planet called Waxworld, where evil waxdroids and good waxdroids are fighting.
• In the first installment of Sid Meier's Civilization (1991) Lincoln is featured as the playable leader of the Americans.
• In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South (1992), several members of the South Africanwhite supremacist organisation Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging traveled back in time from 2014 to January 1864 and provided Confederate army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s, allowing the Confederate States of America to win the American Civil War, which became known as the Second American Revolution. Lincoln remained in Washington, D.C. even with the defeat of the U.S. Army in the face of the Confederate AK-47s at the Battle of Bealeton. Upon the arrival of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lincoln invited General Lee into the White House to negotiate an armistice, ending the war. He spent the remainder of his term attempting to negotiate favorable terms with the Confederacy in the final peace. In the 1864 election, Lincoln and incumbent Vice PresidentHannibal Hamlin carried twelve states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, West Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nevada) with 83 electoral votes. However, he was narrowly defeated by the Democratic ticket of Horatio Seymour and Clement Vallandigham, who carries ten states with 138 electoral votes. After leaving office, Lincoln toured Missouri and Kentucky, agitating tirelessly in favor of the two disputed states remaining in the Union. In the post-war plebiscites, Missouri voted to remain in the Union whereas Kentucky voted to join the Confederacy. Lincoln then returned to Illinois where he practiced law.
• The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln (1995)
• In Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996), Lincoln appears as one of the two leaders of the Americans, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.
• A&E Biography: 'Abraham Lincoln - Preserving the Union' (1997)
• An Abraham Lincoln robot acts as a defense attorney for African-American children Leon, Kahlil, LaShawn and Pee-Wee in Bebe's Kids (1992).
• Lincoln (voiced by Peter Renaday) is assisted in writing the Gettysburg Address by the Warners in the Animaniacs episode 'Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago' (1993).
• Lincoln appeared as an occasional guest host on Histeria!, especially in two episodes centered on the Civil War. Pepper Mills mistakes him for Lurch from The Addams Family, and one sketch shows the Civil War politics like an episode of Seinfeld, with Lincoln as Jerry and George B. McClellan as George Costanza. In another sketch, Loud Kiddington demands he explain the parts of the Gettysburg Address that he doesn't understand (such as what 'four score' means). On Histeria!, Abe acts like Johnny Carson and was voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
• In the 1993 film Coneheads, Dan Aykroyd's character dresses as Lincoln for a costume ball, as the President's stovepipe hat effectively covers his cone-shaped head.
• In an episode of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show, Abraham Lincoln is portrayed (in an openly historically inaccurate skit) as the man who designed the American flag. Tom Kenny portrayed Lincoln as speaking in a thick New York accent.
• In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel How Few Remain (1997), part of the Southern Victory Series, Lincoln is a viewpoint character. He serves as President for one term from 1861 to 1865, where he saw the Confederate States win their independence during the War of Succession. He loses the 1864 election in a landslide. Feeling that the Republican Party was no longer true to its original roots, Lincoln leads a left-wing fraction of Republicans into the Socialist Party in 1882 during the Second Mexican War. The Socialists soon replace the Republicans as the primary opposition to the Democrats, which Benjamin Butler lead most of the right-wing Republicans to them. Despite this, the Republican Party survives, but as a central third party. Mr. Lincoln himself is referred to in later novels in the series as the father of American socialism, as his eloquence and political influence after leaving office.
• Talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien started in 1993, with Dino Stamatopoulos as the original portrayer of Lincoln. In 1999, Mike Sweeney took over this role.
• In an episode of Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter faces his rival, Mandark, using the statue of Lincoln (voiced by Frank Welker) from Mount Rushmore that he has brought to life, and fights Mandark who is using the giant animated statue of George Washington.
• In The DC Comics Elseworld title Superman: A Nation Divided, a reimagining of Superman's origins as coming into his powers during the American Civil War, President Lincoln features heavily. He is first seen reading field reports by General Ulysses S. Grant that describe 'Atticus' Kent's special abilities. Lincoln then assumes Grant has been drinking, until Kent himself shows up at the white House. After Kent helps win the war, he accompanies Lincoln to the Ford Theater, where he prevents John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempt. After this Lincoln is seen to be one of the most popular presidents in history, serving two full terms.
• In 1998, Scott McCloud wrote and drew the graphic novel The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, in which the president seemingly returns to life in the present day; however, it is in fact a disguised Benedict Arnold, working for aliens in a plot to conquer the world. He is unmasked by the true Lincoln, who also returns from the dead.
• In 1998, TNT aired The Day Lincoln Was Shot, with Lance Henriksen as Abraham Lincoln and Rob Morrow as John Wilkes Booth. The film is a remake of Ford Star Jubilee: The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1956).
• In 1999, a comic book story featuring The Phantom was made called Lincoln's Murder, and published in Europe and Australia.
• In the MTV claymation television series Celebrity Deathmatch, He appears as a fighter in which he faced off against George Washington.

2000–2009[edit]

• In the film Bedazzled (2000), Brendan Fraser's character makes a deal with the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) for seven wishes. Upon wishing to be President of the United States, he is transformed into Lincoln and finds himself in Ford's Theatre.
• In Harry Turtledove's fantasy novel series The War Between the Provinces (2000-2002), the King of the Kingdom of Detina is named 'Avram' and take on a similar role compared to Lincoln.
• Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001), a documentary on PBS's American Experience.
• In an episode of the 2001 cartoon Time Squad, Lincoln (voiced by Tom Kenny) is depicted as feeling jaded and bitter towards his 'Honest Abe' title, believing that he is missing out on fun. As a result, he begins numerous foul pranks and bullies citizens in town instead of paying attention to his presidential duties. Time Squad was able to get him back on the right track.
• Clone High (2002) features a clone of Abraham Lincoln as a major character (voiced by Will Forte).
• In Sid Meier's Civilization III (2001), Lincoln appears once again as the playable leader of the Americans.
• In Gangs of New York (2002), Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend a play of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which an actor representing Lincoln is suspended in mid-air (with his body apparently backwards) to address the blackface actors. An audience member interrupts him, as the immigrant audience members begin throwing objects at Lincoln and rioting.
• In The Master of Disguise (2002), Pistachio Disguisey's grandfather tells him about the family legacy. In one part of the story, he tells about the Disguiseys helping Lincoln get elected.
• Though The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne are set in modern times, Lincoln (voiced by Peter Renaday) is strangely used to portray the President of the United States in the story's plot. One episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy even features him as Grim's replacement in Billy and Mandy's group of friends.
• In the 2004 alternative historymockumentaryC.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln flees after the South wins the war and annexes the northern states. Harriet Tubman attempts to help him flee to Canada in blackface makeup, but they are soon captured. He later declares, 'Now I too am a Negro'. Lincoln quickly tried for war crimes against the Confederacy and was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe, Virginia while Tubman is executed. In 1866, Lincoln—frail and gaunt from his two-year sentence—is fully pardoned by Confederate PresidentJefferson Davis and exiled to Canada. Lincoln remains until he dies in June 1905 at the age of 96. Shortly before his death, Lincoln laments not having made the Civil War a battle to end slavery.
• In Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Lincoln is added as one of the playable leaders of the Americans in the expansion pack Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (2007). In the base game, only George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt are playable leaders of America.
• In 2005, Lincoln appeared in the song and video of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by Lemon Demon.
• In the 2006 American Dad! episode 'Lincoln Lover', Stan Smith decides to write a play to show his admiration for Lincoln and unwittingly ends up portraying him as a homosexual, attracting the attention of the Log Cabin Republicans.
• In an episode of The Venture Bros., the ghost of Lincoln requests the help of Hank and Dean to save the current president from being killed.
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) is a fictional film which concerns the assassination of Lincoln.
• In the fourth episode of the 2007 game Sam & Max Save the World, the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial is converted into a giant robot. He returns in the game's final episode, and becomes a major recurring character in its sequels.
• Futurama featured different depictions of Abraham Lincoln:
  • An Evil Hologram of Lincoln appears in 'Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch' voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
  • A Robot Lincoln with 20 personalities (All of them Lincoln) called Abraham Lincolnbot appear in 'Insane in the Mainframe' voiced by David Herman.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Head in a Jar has also appeared voiced by Billy West in the episodes 'Put Your Head on My Shoulders' and 'All the Presidents' Heads' and by Maurice LaMarche in Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.
• He is ranked fourth in Electronic Gaming Monthly's list of the top ten video game politicians for his appearance in Fight Club for the PlayStation 2.^[12]
• In Robot Chicken's first Star Wars Special, Lincoln (voiced by Hulk Hogan) is seen as being seated under the Lincoln Memorial, and engages in lightsaber combat with George W. Bush. In 'Bionic Cow,' Abraham Lincoln (voiced by Seth Green) is doing four score and seven kicks to Robert E. Lee's balls while two Union Soldiers hold Lee.
• Lincoln appears in the form of his statue at the Lincoln Memorial coming to life in the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian voiced by Hank Azaria. In the video game adaption, Abraham Lincoln's statue is voiced by Jim Cummings.

2010–present[edit]

• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010) is a novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, in which Lincoln makes it his life's goal to destroy all evil vampires in the United States. The film adaptation was released in July 2012.^[13]
• The Conspirator (2010) deals with the assassination of Lincoln, centering on Mary Surratt.
• In the 2011 director's cut of Gods and Generals based on the book of same name Lincoln was played by Christian Kauffman during a few added scenes, including one where Lincoln watches Macbeth featuring John Wilkes Booth where Booth gives the 'Dagger of the Mind' soliloquy while staring intently at Lincoln.
• Lincoln, a 2012 film based upon Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role. The film focuses on Lincoln's determination to assure that Congress passed the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
• Shattered Nation: An Alternate History Novel of the American Civil War, written by Jeffrey Evan Brooks and published in 2013, features Lincoln as a major character.
• In the Two and a Half Men episode 'What a Lovely Landing Strip', Walden tells Bridget that Mary Todd was a 'rebound' relationship for Lincoln.
• Louis C.K. parodied his show Louie as Lincoln on Saturday Night Live, portraying Lincoln as a stand up comedian. (Season 38, Episode 6)
• Portrayed by Billy Campbell in Killing Lincoln.
• The film Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, from The Asylum.
• In the music video for the comedy song 'Cold Dead Hand', one of The Eels members is dressed up like Lincoln.
• The 2013 film Saving Lincoln depicts the friendship between Lincoln and his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon.
• The 2013 video game BioShock Infinite features Lincoln being demonized by the Founders of Columbia for freeing the slaves. The Vox Populi even hijack Motorized Patriots and remake them in Lincoln's likeness.
• In the video game Sid Meier's Civilization V, Lincoln is added in the expansion pack Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World (2013) as the leader of the Union in the American Civil War scenario.
• In The Lego Movie, Abraham Lincoln (voiced again by Will Forte) is one of the Master Builders. Abraham Lincoln's toy bio states that he lives in a log cabin that he built all by himself, in the middle of a forest that he built all by himself, then cut down, and then rebuilt all by himself again. Abraham Lincoln is among the Master Builders that meet in Cloud Cuckoo Land and to express his disdain towards Emmet where he commented 'A house divided against itself... would be better than this!' Then he rode his rocket chair out of the 'Dog' in Cloud Cuckoo Land much to the dismay of Emmet. He later joined in the battle against Lord Business and his forces in Bricksburg.
  • Abraham Lincoln is a playable character in The Lego Movie Videogame. He attacks by throwing the Gettysburg Address at enemies.
• Abraham Lincoln is one of the historical figures who appeared in Mr. Peabody & Sherman voiced by Jess Harnell. He is among the historical figures that rain down into the present due to an incident with the space-time continuum. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Bill Clinton support Peabody's legal custody of Sherman and award Peabody a presidential pardon. When the space-time continuum is fixed, Abraham Lincoln is returned to his own time.
• Lincoln is featured in the novel The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy.
• Lincoln is featured in four episodes of Epic Rap Battles of History: 'Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama', 'Chuck Norris vs Lincoln', 'NicePeter vs EpicLloyd', and 'Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton'.
• Lincoln is featured as central character in the 2015 videogame Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., voiced by Wil Wheaton. This version of the character staged his own assassination, allowing him to disappear from the public eye and concentrate on running the S.T.E.A.M. strike force to combat the impending alien invasion.
• Starting in 2016, author Jonathan F. Putnam has penned three historical mystery novels featuring Lincoln, and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as the protagonists.
• Lincoln appears in the season 1 episode 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln' of the NBC series Timeless, portrayed by Michael Krebs.
• The Better Angels, aka, The Green Blade Rises, produced by Terrence Malick, focused on Lincoln's upbringing, showing the events and tragedies that forged him into the man he became.
• Lincoln is featured in the upcoming 2018 film documentary, The Gettysburg Address, voiced by David Morse.

References[edit]

1. ^Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Tony Kushner, 'Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood', Smithsonian (2012) 43#7 pp. 46–53.
2. ^Melvyn Stokes, 'Abraham Lincoln and the Movies', American Nineteenth Century History 12 (June 2011), 203–31.
3. ^David S. Reynolds, Lincoln and WhitmanHistory Now (2013) online
4. ^McCall, Matt (February 15, 2016). 'In music, Abraham Lincoln's image evolves for each new generation'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
5. ^Barry Schwartz, 'Rereading the Gettysburg address: Social change and collective memory.' Qualitative sociology 19#3 (1996): 395-422.
6. ^Mark S. Reinhart, Abraham Lincoln on Screen: Fictional and Documentary Portrayals on Film and Television (McFarland, 2009).
7. ^ ^abSarah Miles Bolam; Thomas J. Bolam (2007). The Presidents on Film: A Comprehensive Filmography of Portrayals from George Washington to George W. Bush. McFarland. p. 108. ISBN9780786424818.
8. ^Lundin, Leigh (14 February 2016). 'Abe Lincoln's Mystery'. SleuthSayers. SleuthSayers.org.
9. ^Ekkehard Koch: Der »Kanada-Bill«. Variationen eines Motivs bei Karl May. In: Jahrbuch der Karl-May-Gesellschaft 1976, pp. 29–46.‹See Tfd›(in German)
10. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031573/
11. ^Berhman, John (March 9, 1985). 'Escondido teacher Rex Hamilton is dead at 60'. The San Diego Union. p. II-1.
12. ^Scott Sharkey, 'EGM's Top Ten Videogame Politicians: Election time puts us in a voting mood', Electronic Gaming Monthly 234 (November 2008): 97.
13. ^Michael Cieply (May 9, 2011). 'Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy'. New York Times.

Further reading[edit]

• Gabor Boritt. The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (2001)
• Jackie Hogan. Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America (2011)
• Barry Schwartz. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000)
• Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Tony Kushner, 'Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood,' Smithsonian (2012) 43#7 pp 46–53.
• Melvyn Stokes, 'Abraham Lincoln and the Movies,' American Nineteenth Century History 12 (June 2011), 203–31.

External links[edit]

• Word document of 'A Jacklegged Lawyer From Springfield: Abraham Lincoln in the Movies', Frank Thompson

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Rex Hamilton As Abraham Lincoln Today

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 — April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States between 1861 and 1865. That guy who won the The American Civil War, proclaimed the slaves free, delivered the Gettysburg Address, and was born in a log cabin which he built with his own two hands. (Old joke.)

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He immediately followed James Buchanan and preceded Andrew Johnson. He's also known for wearing a top hat and being impressively tall (tied with Lyndon Johnson for tallest president ever, at 6'4'). When he took direct control of the Union army for a brief time, he showed himself to be a talented military strategist as well.

A genial and charming speaker, Lincoln had an uncanny ability to explain complex issues in layman's terms, and his speeches are among the most famous in American history. Considered an untested and possibly radical figure, he is famous for Growing the Beard in office, in addition to a distinctively shaped Lantern Jaw of Justice, which was depicted as clean-shaven in his earlier years. He grew the beard at the insistence of an 11-year old girl named Grace Bedell who wrote him a letter. In many ways he's the only post-Founding Fathers/ pre-Teddy Roosevelt President who's thought of at all. He is almost universally considered to be one of the greatest Presidents (if not the greatest) in American history.

Despite his childhood education consisting of barely a year in total due to the scarcity of schools in pioneer territories, since he attended school for a few months at a time, he still managed to avidly enjoy reading such literary classics as Aesop's fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, the works of William Shakespeare, and the King James Bible. Later on, he hired Mentor Graham, a tutor to help him become more proficient in the 'three R's', and Lincoln borrowed a grammar book from a neighbor six miles away. Using borrowed law books and learning how to speak by watching courtroom proceedings, and never having attended law school, he confidently stated 'I studied with nobody' when given his license to practice law before the state bar; during the earlier years, a person didn't need to graduate from law school if they could pass the bar exam.^note

It is also relevant, if somewhat uncomfortable to admit, that Lincoln was by today's standards a racist. He considered blacks to be less intelligent than whites. Though he was an abolitionist, he was willing at least in principle to allow slavery to continue, if only because it was constitutionally protected in established states, believing that it would end on its own if it could be kept from spreading. At one point in time, he supported the American Colonization Society program, which would have enabled the freed slaves to emigrate to Liberia and start new lives. He once remarked in 1837, while speaking of his 'Free Soil' stance opposing both slavery and radical abolitionism: 'The institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation (legal enactment) of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.' Early in his Presidency he said that he would back any solution to the slavery question that preserved the Union, whether it was freeing all the slaves, freeing none of them, or freeing some and leaving others enslaved, but by then he had already chosen option one, though border states had exemption initially. His anti-slavery views became stronger over time, however, eventually crystallizing in two famous quotes: 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,' and 'Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.'

His memorial in DC is a very popular spot for 'inspirational' moments in media, and is much hardier than most other memorials (But don't tell that to Megatron). He is also the only non-British Empire citizen to have a statue in Parliament Square in London. His death inspired many elegies, perhaps most famously 'O Captain! My Captain!' by Walt Whitman.

Was famously born in a log cabin, but not the one you can get tours of (despite what the guides will tell you); that one was built 8 years after he was born. As Stephen Fry once put it, it is dangerously close to the legendary schoolboy gaffe quoted above.

It is also said that his ghost haunts The White House. His presence is sometimes made clear by appearing, if briefly, before some Presidents and other guests during times of great crisis (such as a kung fu fight againstRichard Nixon).

Incidentally, in contrast to most modern-day Badass Baritone depictions, Lincoln's voice was actually somewhat high-pitched and nasal. For something approaching what's considered to be more accurate, consider this feature, filmed for Time Magazine. Benjamin Walker became the first actor to break away from the deep-voiced tradition with his portrayal of the 16th President in, of all things, 2012's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, though he pretty much just used the higher register of his normal speaking voice. Daniel Day-Lewis became the first actor to give a nearly-true representation of the 'thin, high pitched' tone that Lincoln is recorded to have possessed, in 2012's Lincoln; this alone was considered a huge expose, nevermind that pesky 'obstruction of justice' stuff.

The last living person to witness Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater was Samuel J. Seymour, who sat in the balcony box across from the Lincolns at age five, and appeared on the game show 'I've Got A Secret' to relate his story 91 years later in 1956. He died several months later.

One of the things which allegedly mellowed Lincoln out on the issue of race was his unlikely friendship with escaped slave and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass, along with the extreme polarization of the public on the issue, as hundreds of thousands died During the War. After unexpectedly winning re-election in a stunning turnaround, in his Second Inaugural Address (only slightly longer than the one at Gettysburg) Lincoln famously delivered one of the greatest speeches of all time.

Note that he went on to say:

The war was won weeks later. Coincidence? Probably.

Fact: Abraham Lincoln can and, if needed, will, beat you in a fight.Even if you're Batman. Or Bigfoot. In some ways, Abraham Lincoln is almost as much a Memetic Badass as Chuck Norris. In fact, this is where you can go to watch them have a rap battle. Some would count him as the only president to be more badass than Theodore Roosevelt (and maybe Andrew Jackson, if you ignore the politics). On the other hand, Crackeddoesn't even count him among the top five, though the same author later acknowledged the oversight and made an article devoted strictly to Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: Portrait Of A Crazy Badass. It really depends on how much weight you give the Badass Beard.

Also Fact: In 1842 Abraham Lincoln was once challenged to a duel by a political rival, state auditor James Shields. In dueling, the challenged party selects the place of the duel, and the weapons to be used. Since Lincoln felt the situation was ridiculous, he stated that he wanted to use 'Cavalry Broadswords of the largest size'. He also added that he wanted the duel to be carried out in a pit 10 feet wide by 12 feet deep with a large wooden plank dividing the square which no man was allowed to set foot over. Shields was going to go through with it, but then saw Lincoln clearing branches with a broadsword and realized how insane the situation had become and backed down.

• NB: The fencing treatise 'By the Sword' notes that Lincoln's apparently ridiculous rules for the duel belie a cunning tactician's mind: By choosing long, heavy weapons and dividing the dueling ground to prevent his opponent from closing distance, the much taller Lincoln ensured that he—with his nearly 6 inch longer reach—could attack with impunity and/or (more likely) effectively stalemate the duel without drawing blood.
• NBB: Lincoln felt the situation was so ridiculous that, when Shields first challenged Lincoln to choose the duelling weapons, Lincoln initially chose 'cow pies.' Lincoln only switched to broadswords when Shields rejected this idea.
• This has been called one of the most bizarre episodes in Lincoln's life, involving his using a female persona (with input from Mary and a friend) to write a witty letter for a widely read Illinois paper, mocking Shields' personal appearance and reputation with the ladies along with his policies. A followup letter — actually by the women — caused Shields to challenge.
  Dear girls, it is distressing, but I cannot marry you all. Too well I know how much you suffer, but do, do remember, it is not my fault that I am so handsome and so interesting.
• Some historians think that Lincoln and Shields set this up to get publicity.

Also Also Fact: Abraham Lincoln, 140 years before its first usage in ECW, frickin' invented the chokeslam. During his youth as a 'wrassler', one of Lincoln's opponents made the mistake of stomping on Lincoln's instep with the heel of his boot. As recounted by noted Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, 'This exasperated Lincoln so that he lost his temper, lifted Armstrong up by the throat and off the ground, shook him like a rag, and then slammed him to a hard fall, flat on his back.'^note Both men would become good friends. Lincoln was honored by the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame for this feat.

Lincoln was also the other kind of inventor, also held a patent for a device intended to help boats navigate shallows, making him the only President in American history ever to have held a patent. He was also a licensed bartender and co-owned a pub for a while before entering politics. Thus when Lincoln quipped that he wished he could serve all his generals what his skilled General Ulysses S. Grant was drinking, he was in a position where he could have done that legally and literally. Additionally, he was a crack target shot with a rifle, and in one recorded instance, joined a group of soldiers who were trying out a new model near the White House; when one remarked that the weapon needed a better sight, Lincoln produced one that he'd whittled out of wood (having tried the rifle beforehand and being similarly unimpressed by its standard sight).

Lincoln is also one of the few presidents to have an aircraftcarrier named after him. As well as the capital of Nebraska, the official outlet for Star Trek merchandise^note , a make of luxury car, and toy logs. Oh, and also many, many, many parks, including (indirectly) a musical one.

He was a Republican. This fact was unknown to many until recently. It should be noted, though, that contrary to how this fact is most commonly used in political discourse nowadays, being a Republican in Lincoln's time didn't mean being a conservative, as it wasn't until roughly a century after Lincoln's death that Republicans and Democrats became the right-wing and left-wing parties we know them as today. Before then, the Republican and Democratic parties did not have precise ideological alignments. Each had wings we would call 'liberal' and 'conservative', and were better described as coalitions of cross-cutting regional, cultural, and class-based interests.

Honest Abe in fiction:

• A series of Geico ads use the trope Is the Answer to This Question 'Yes'?. One of the questions is 'Was Abe Lincoln honest?' Lincoln's wife is shown asking him 'Does this dress make my backside look big?'. Lincoln, after struggling with himself for a while answers 'Perhaps.'
  • The producers went to commendable effort to make that clip look like a period film , if they'd had film in the 1860s. (He'd have had to live another thirty-some years to be in the first silent films.)
• A new Diet Mountain Dew ad has Lincoln as a professional wrestler.
  • He was an amateur in Real Life.
• And of course he shows up every Presidents' Day for the big sales.

• One of Bob Newhart's early routines, 'Abraham Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue', satirically juxtaposes the cynical marketing of modern political candidates with Lincoln's honesty.
• Negativland's Lincoln Robot — a satire on the Disney Animatronic version.
• The Conception Corporation had a skit where Edward R. Murrow did on-the-spot reports from Heaven. When he came upon Lincoln, he asked him what he thought of the current (circa 1970) U.S. situation.
  Murrow.Thank you, Abe.

• In The Amazing Screw-On Head, Lincoln is the president who gives the title character his orders.
• Lincoln was one of the former identities of The Immortal in Invincible.
• A Twist Ending in an issue of EC Comics' Weird Fantasy describes an Alternate History where the assassination of Lincoln failed, and he ended up leading America to a world takeover, which turns the world into a utopia of equality and prosperity, with Lincoln having a Jesus-like cult centuries after his death.
• A painting of Lincoln—with the word 'Nigger' scrawled across it—is the source of much controversy in the first arc of Ex Machina.
• The 'Statue of Lincoln comes to life' subtrope even has an Animal Superheroes version; in one issue of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!!, a villain animates a statue of 'Abraham Linkidd' (who is a goat, in case you were wondering).
• In Hellblazer, wizard John Constantine meets Lincoln who is the plot's villain.
• In Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, he is, unsurprisingly, a major character.
• Deadpool once wrestled a Zombie Abe Lincoln.
• Alterna ComicsJesus Hates Zombies Featuring Abe Lincoln Hates Warewolves
• The Kyle Baker Plastic Man story 'Continuity Bandit: Abraham Lincoln Must Die!', of course. A time-traveling villain throws Lincoln (actually John Wilkes Booth in a disguise, though the real Lincoln appears once the gang goes to the past) at Plas to facilitate an escape, which somehow caused the civil rights movement to never happen, Wonder Woman to become a housewife, and Green Lantern to beat the Flash in a sack race. Eventually, a reluctant Woozy tries to shoot him. It doesn't go well.
• In a Doctor Who comic the Third Doctor gave Abe Lincoln advice on how to win the Battle of Gettysburg.
• In a particularly weirdThe Simpsons comic it was revealed that president Lincoln sent Homer to Fords theater in his place so he could pose for the five dollar bill then Professor Frink went back in time to prevent his assassination.
• An even weirder Else Worlds story had Brainiac as President Lincoln.
• An Abe Lincoln version of Darkwing Duck was featured as part of the Darkwingsof theMultiverse.
• In an issue of Avengers West Coast,Immortus watched and then destroyed an Alternate Timeline where Abe Lincoln overpowered John Wilkes Booth.
• Captain America once fought a robot Abe Lincoln created by the Mad Thinker.
• The Sentry once ran into Abraham Lincoln on his way to Fords theater while chasing a time traveling villain luckily the president mistakes him for an actor.
• In an early issue of BlackhawkThe Eternal Enemy claimed that he hypnotized John Wilkes Booth into killing Abraham Lincoln.
• It was revealed in an issue of Justice League that in Earth Three Abe Lincoln was an actor who shot president John Wilkes Booth.
• A superhero modeled after him called Honest Abe appeared in 52.
  • There is also Abraham Lincoln Carlyle from the'Forceof July' although the similarities end at the name.
• Abe Lincoln's Spirit appears to Kid Eternity in his first appearance and again in the second issue of his main series.
• There are Else Worlds that put Batman and Superman in the Civil War, usually ending with them saving him from assassination. One particular example: After being saved by Atticus Kent Lincoln was provided a secret service organized by Kent to ensure his safety. On May 23, 1864, Lincoln recruited Kent's help in overseeing his Reconstruction Program in the American South. On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was sworn into his second term under the completed Capitol Dome.
• He appeared in iZombie as a zombie but unlike the Deadpool example above seems to be more benevolent leading an army of dead soldiers.
• The opening to the second volume of The Umbrella Academy features the kids fighting the Lincoln memorial, which has come to life for some reason. They fend it off by summoning an equally large statue of John Wilkes Booth to assassinate him. The Booth statue is last seen making a run for it.

• Abe makes a very brief Back from the Dead appearance in Garfield in: 'Along Came a Splut', but he is killed off just as soon as he appears, getting impaled by a shard of glass from Garfield's broken TV, since the story says he's supposed to be dead in the first place. The author claimed this mean-spirited bit was a big reason why he eventually disowned the story.

• Uhm, Lincoln, of course, where the focus is on his guiding of the political forces in America to end the Civil War and pass the 13th Amendment, thereby abolishing slavery.
• Lincoln is one of Bill and Ted's collection of historical figures in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
• The whacked-out Chinese movie Fantasy Mission Force opens with several World War II generals being captured. One of them is Lincoln. And he clearly identifies himself as such - even in the original Chinese.
• In 1935's The Littlest Rebel, Virgie (Shirley Temple) visits Lincoln (Frank Mc_Glynn Sr.) asking him to pardon her dad and a sympathetic Union colonel, who are falsely accused of spying and sentenced to death.
• In the 1939 film by John Ford, Young Mr. Lincoln, he's portrayed by Henry Fonda.
• The 1954 The Tall Target by Anthony Mann deals with a Private Detective (played by Dick Powell) trying to stop an assassination attempt on Lincoln on his journey to the White House for his inauguration in 1860. He's mentioned throughout the film and appears in the very last shot, weary and tired at having dodged the bullet, with the obvious Futureshadowing by the film's mise-en-scene underlying that one day his luck would run out.
• Tyler Durden of Fight Club wants to fight him, because he's a big guy, with big reach. And besides, skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.^note He becomes an unlockable character in the Video Game version.
• In Gangs of New York, an actor portrays him in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin and he is greeted with jeers, food throwing, and shouts of 'Down with the Union!' This is a pretty good reflection of how - white - working-class New Yorkers actually felt about President Lincoln; New York City mayor Fernando Wood even proposed that the city secede from the Union and become an independent country.
• A major character, and a surprisingly sympathetic one, in the outrageously racist 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. This fit with the views, in the South, that Lincoln would have gone easier on the South than the Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens (who are outright demonized here and in later films).^note
• In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian the statue from the Lincoln Memorial comes to life.
• In the 2011 remake of Arthur, one of Abraham Lincoln's suits is bought by Arthur at an auction, and Arthur quotes Lincoln near the end of the film, but is punched in the face before he can say his actual quote.
• In the Wild Wild West movie, Dr. Loveless makes a grand appearance at his party by hiding inside a statue of Lincoln, whose head explodes.
• In The Dark Knight his picture appears in a list of suspects for the identity of Batman
• In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, he loses the Civil War. He attempts to flee to Canada with Harriet Tubman disguised as a black man, but is captured by Confederate forces. After a two year imprisonment, Jefferson Davis, hoping to ease tension in the newly conqured North, pardons him and exiles him to Canada, where he dies a lonely man in the early 1900s. All history remembers him for is being the man that lost 'the War of Northern Agression'.
• At the climax of Black Dynamite, when Richard Nixon grabs John Wilkes Booth's pistol to shoot BD, the ghost of Lincoln appears and kung-fus the gun out of Nixon's hand.
• In The Master of Disguise, Pistachio's grandfather tells about how the Disguisey family made impact on history. Abraham Lincoln was such a boring speaker, so a disguised Lincoln helped him become elected president by partying and dancing while I Like to Move It by Reel to Real is played.
• It is revealed in Zoolander that John Wilkes Booth was a brainwashed male model who was made to assassinate Abe Lincoln so slavery won't be abolished. (because then they won't be able to make designer clothes)
• An unnamed Abe Lincoln impersonator appears in Mister Lonely.
• He is one of the historical figures who appears in DreamWorksMr. Peabody & Sherman and one of the presidents who supports Mr. Peabody's right to raise a human child.
• In The LEGO Movie he is one of the master builders who is unimpressed with Emmett reacting with “A house divided against itself... would be better than this!” before riding his rocket chair out of the 'Dog' in Cloud Cuckoo Land much to the dismay of Emmet. He later joined in the battle against Lord Business and his forces in Bricksburg.
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the book of the same name, portrays him as a secret vampire hunter.
• Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies is a Mockbuster made by The Asylum about a secret mission where Abe hunts the undead.
• He's played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's long-gestating biopic Lincoln, opposite Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln's son, Robert, and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Day-Lewis won an Academy Award for his performance.
• In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lincoln appears with a variety of other dead characters when the narrator snidely suggests that the film just resurrect everyone.
• At the end of Happy Gilmore, he's seen alongside the alligator that ate Chubbs' hand and Chubbs himself waving at Happy from Heaven.
• In the 1994 film Quiz Show, University professor Charles Lincoln Van Doren achieves fame by winning a quiz show but secretly was getting the answers in advance. A journalist asks Van Doren how would Honest Abe (sic.) fare in a quiz show - which disturbs Van Doren, because Van Doren was being dishonest.
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: The Klingon Chancellor Gorkon was modeled after Lincoln as well as Mikhail Gorbachev, with Lincoln's portrait also in the Officers' Mess.
• D. W. Griffith's next-to-last film was the BiopicAbraham Lincoln (1930). Pretty stagey overall, and heavily fictionalized, but it has its moments.

• In a few of the Flashman books, Lincoln appears as a Guile Hero, who also has some similarity with the 'Atticus Finch' 'simple country lawyer' type. He is notable as one of the few characters who sees right through Flashman.
• Gore Vidal's bestselling historical novel Lincoln takes place over the span of the Civil War. The book doesn't presume to know what Lincoln is thinking, instead switching between the perspectives of his advisers (plus John Wilkes Booth's accomplice). The author caught the ire of historians for including third-party anecdotes regarding Abe's bout with syphilis, among other things. Vidal's rebuttal was that U.S. Historians tend to gloss over the imperfections of their idols, leaving us with only a faint impression of the men they really were.
• One of the plots in the Dirk Pitt Adventures book Sahara concerns Lincoln.
• In the Alternate History novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove, Lincoln is a main character (having been a one-term president after losing the Civil War). Inspired by the writings of Marx, Lincoln becomes a travelling speaker lecturing about the rights of man and the benefits of socialism. Lincoln also leads a faction of the splintering Republican Party into defecting to the Socialist Party, causing the Socialists to eventually eclipse the Republicans as one of the nation's two major political parties.
  • Lincoln plays a smaller part in Turtledove's The Guns of the South, where he surrenders after the Confederates, equipped with AK-47s by time travelers, win the war. The next (and last) time we see him is April 15, 1865, where he delivers a speech trying to convince Kentucky to stay with the United States; this date is, as pointed out later in the book, the day he was assassinated in the regular timeline.
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
• Lincoln's Dreams, a novel by Connie Willis, has Lincoln's dreams of his own assassination as a major plot point.
• Oscar Lewis' novella The Lost Years portrays a never-named president known affectionately by his staff as 'The Shogun', who is badly wounded at Ford's Theater but recovers. He completes his second term, returns to Illinois and later visits California (which in real life he planned on doing once the Civil War and the transcontinental railroad were finished). An encounter with a little girl who is being ostracized because her father fought for the South turns heartwarming. (Lincoln was actually known by his staff as 'Taikun', the polite term of address for a real shogun.)
• Walt Whitman wrote his famous poem 'O Captain! My Captain!' about Lincoln's death.
• Likewise, Henrik Ibsen made a poem called The Murder of Abraham Lincoln, commenting on exactly that. Possibly the angriest poem Ibsen ever wrote.
• In the President's Vampire series, the bullet that killed Lincoln is used by Marie Laveau in the voodoo ritual that binds Nathaniel Cade to the service of the office of the President.

• In one episode of Supernews, an animated sketch involved President Obama, after running out of ideas on how to fix the economy, having his entire cabinet dig up Abe's body, insert all the stem cells they could find, and see what happened. He beat up the head of AIG.
• Abraham Lincoln was summoned to take part in a duel to the death between good and bad factions in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode 'The Savage Curtain'. Played by Lee Bergere, he spoke in a pleasant low tenor or high baritone voice, avoiding the booming stereotype. Sadly, he was among the first to die.
• From the opening of Police Squad!: '...And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln!', which leads to a brief shot of Lincoln firing back at John Wilkes Booth.
• Lincoln appears briefly in two episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) set during the The American Civil War, 'Back There' and 'The Passersby'.
• A whole episode of Touched by an Angel features his assassination, with Monica and Tess working as his seamstresses and Andrew meeting up with and trying to redeem John Wilkes Booth.
• Hal Holbrook won an Emmy for his performance as Lincoln in the miniseries Sandburg's Lincoln, and later reprised the part for the miniseries North and South and North and South: Book II.
• Gregory Peck played Lincoln in the miniseries The Blue and the Grey.
• Sam Waterston earned considerable acclaim for his performance as Lincoln in the 1988 miniseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln, based on the abovementioned novel.
• Waterston was also the voice of Lincoln in Ken Burns' The Civil War.
• One of Johnny Carson's monologues on The Tonight Show essentially involved puns based on 'Lincoln'.
  'Every Lincoln's Birthday reminds me of my old girlfriend back in Nebraska...Gina Statutory. She went to Lincoln High, and was voted Miss Lincoln...because every guy in school took a shot at her in the balcony.'
• On Late Night with Conan O'Brien, a common skit involved Conan checking out wacky (and obviously fake) channels from all around the world. One of the most memorable of these channels is the Abraham Lincoln Money Shot Channel, which is an entire channel devoted to, you guessed it, shots of Honest Abe, a-hem, finishing his business.
  • It should be noted that Conan is a professed Lincoln fanboy and featured Abe in a number of sketches, including one where he rode a zipline over the studio audience and knocked out John Wilkes Booth before he could shoot Lincoln.
• In an episode of The Office (US)Gabe is mistaken for an Abe Lincoln impersonator, at first he tries to correct them but eventually he goes along with it and does a pretty decent impression.
• The Red Dwarf episode 'Meltdown' features waxwork creations representing various famous people from history; one of these is Lincoln.
• In Babylon 5:
  • When Centauri Vir Cotto sets up an 'underground railway' of sorts to smuggle Narns off their occupied homeworld, he creates a fake Centauri noble named 'Abrahamo Lincolni' to expedite matters. The name fools the other Centauri (most of whom don't know anything about Earth history), but the humans who run across it burst out laughing. This doesn't stop them, however, from using the fake identity themselves to smuggle Narns and to expedite other matters involving the Centauri, although they never expose Vir's ruse.
  • Sheridan's 'good luck speech', which he gave to his men each time he assumed a new command, contained a quote from a noted speech given by President Lincoln to Congress in 1862.
  • In season 5, an assassin who is embittered by the overthrow of the Clark government at the end of Earth's Civil War, warns Sheridan that like Lincoln, he will pay the price for the death and destruction 'his war' cost. Unlike Booth however ^note , said assassin was complicit with the Clark administration and had committed war crimes thus suffering from Moral Dissonance.
  • After a very turbulent time in EarthGov when the previous administration was corrupt, newly inaugurated President Susanna Luchenko asks that they listen to 'the better angels of our nature' in reference to Lincoln's first inaugural address when sorting through the corruption and previous administration's crimes.
• In a skit on the Sketch ComedyThe Whitest Kids U' Know, Lincoln is presented as having been very loud and obnoxious at Ford's Theatre. When John Wilkes Boothe asks him to be quiet, Abe begins mercilessly taunting him. Boothe finally snaps, and shoots Lincoln beats his ass with a hammer.
• In Englishman it transpires that the Lincoln who was assassinated was a decoy, to cover up for the fact that he had been abducted by aliens. He makes his return and resumes his second term as President.
• In one episode of Father Ted, Dougal, in a delusional state due to extreme hunger, sees Ted in a Lincoln costume.
• A letter from Lincoln to Thomas's grandfather goes missing in the Magnum, P.I. episode 'Going Home'.
• In the final episode of The Colbert Report, after killing Death, thereby becoming immortal,Stephen Colbert rides away with fellow immortals Abraham Lincoln, who reveals he's a unicorn with his horn hidden under his stovepipe hat, Santa Claus, and Alex Trebek.

• Naturally, he is the 'Abraham' from Dick Holler's 1962 song 'Abraham, Martin, and John'.
• The video for the Electric Six song 'Gay Bar.'
  • Because he's gonna take you to the gay bar.
• In Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, he popped out of his grave, took an AK-47 out from under his hat, and blew Batman away with a rat-a-tat-tat, but he ran out of bullets and ran away 'cause Optimus Primearrived to save the day.
  • He soon came back with a machete, but got tripped by Indiana Jones with his whip. Later, he tried to pole-vault onto Optimus Prime, but collided with Jackie Chan in the air. Then they both got hit by a Care Bear Stare.

• Revenge from Mars has a mode wherein you control a Humongous Mecha version of him and fight a Big-O Martian.

• Lincoln is a badass Cursed with AwesomeHarrowedMIB in Deadlands.
• The backstory of Task Force: VALKYRIE in Hunter: The Vigil starts with the abduction of Abraham Lincoln by supernatural creatures in 1864. He was killed during the retrieval, and it was a substitute that took the bullet to the head in Ford's Theatre.

• Since the musical Assassins deals with presidential assassinations, Lincoln naturally makes an appearance.
• Raymond Massey starred in the 1938 play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, which was made into a popular film in 1940. If you ever see Massey in anything and think 'that guy sounds like Abraham Lincoln', that's because the popular conception of Lincoln's molasses-like voice stems from Massey's performance.
  • Massey later reprised his role in a TV version of The Day Lincoln Was Shot and How the West Was Won.
• In The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), by the Rule of Funny, the biblical Abraham comes on in a Lincoln costume and says, 'Thank you, Lord, for delivering me into the Land of Canaan four score and seventeen seconds ago.'

• A giant statue of Abraham Lincoln, actually from the Memorial to said man, is the Antagonist in one of the Sam & Max: Freelance Police episodes. He appears later as merely a giant head and falls in love with one of Sam and Max's neighbours, Sybil Pandemik. They later marry and have a child. A running gag in the series is that he claims not to be one good for speeches; he had absolutely nothing prepared when he made the Gettysburg Address, and was just winging it at the time. At one point in the second season the real Lincoln appears as a zombie.
• Civilization:
  • Lincoln is the leader of America in the first three games. He is added as a leader in an Expansion Pack for Civilization 4.
  • In the Beyond The Sword expansion pack to 4, the intro cinematic shows him briefly giving the Gettysburg Address. This then Match Cuts to the Lincoln Memorial, where Cold War-era spies are going about their business.
• One of the subplots of Fallout 3 is the struggle between slavers and freedmen to control Lincoln's legacy. Several of his artifacts, including his hat and rifle, can be found and equipped in the game.
• In Team Fortress 2, he was the original Pyro. And he also invented stairs, so people don't need to rocket jump to the upper floor anymore.
• He is a playable character in The Lego Movie where he can throw a copy of the Gettysburg Address, destroying enemies and objects.
  • He also has a cameo in a picture in LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham.
• He was added to The Simpsons: Tapped Out to celebrate the fourth of July.
• According to the backstory of Assassin's Creed, Booth was killed off by the Assassin Order, implying that Lincoln may have affiliations with the Assassins himself.
• Dealt in Lead takes place in a verystrange world, where the Lich-Emperor Abraham Lincoln has risen from the dead to continue the war against the south.
• The ending of Conduit 2 has Abe Lincoln and George Washington in Powered Armor showing up as reinforcements for the protagonist.
• In Bioshock Infinite, Abraham Lincoln is demonized by the citizens of Columbia for the Emancipation Proclamation while Booth is revered as a hero for assassinating him by the Order of the Raven, a Klan-like society. In turn the opposing faction, the Vox Populi, revere Lincoln, albeit for the wrong reasons, such as seeing him as a role model for glorifying violence and conflict.
  • The most noticeable result of all this is that the Vox field gatling-wielding clockwork robot Lincolns as Elite Mooks. Which can face off against the Founder's mechanicalGeorge Washingtons.
• In Codename STEAM, Lincoln had faked his death and gone underground to found S.T.E.A.M. (Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace), a steampunk squadron designed to repel a lovecraftian alien invasion. He also pilots a Humongous Mecha called A.B.E.

• The webcomic Thinkin' Lincoln.
• A reassembled and reanimated Lincoln puts in an appearance as the dreaded dictatorial leader of the land of Monstru, Lincolnstein, in the webcomic Monster Commute.
• In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, a Funny Background Event is Lincoln fighting a woolly mammoth with a chainsaw.
• Abraham Lincoln:EXPLOSION GOD
• In El Goonish Shive, when Dan tries blaming the existence of a Monday filler strip (instead of a story comic) on it being President's Day, Lincoln appears and berates Dan for dragging presidents into it.
• Lincoln is an extremely powerful ghost in A Girl and Her Fed. And a Troper

• In Decades of Darkness, Lincoln's family moved from Kentucky to New England soon after his birth, and he eventually becomes President of the Republic of New England, though the fact he is limited to a single four-year term means he doesn't achieve all he wanted in office. In an Allohistorical Allusion, while he is in power, the rump United States is governed by President Jefferson Davis, and the two men are rivals. However, when Davis is assassinated, Lincoln attends his funeral.
• He goes up against Chuck Norris in the Epic Rap Battles of History.
  • He makes a return during the Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama battle, and schools them both. 'OF THE PEOPLE! BY THE PEOPLE! FOR THE PEOPLE! EAGLE!'
• Lincoln's profile makes a brief appearance in the Homestar Runner dance mix Come On Fhqwhgads.
• The web cartoon Hard Drinkin' Lincoln has a drunken Lincoln causing ridiculous amounts of trouble in office.

• A clone of Abraham Lincoln is the main protagonist of Clone High. Due to the circumstances of the series, he's best friends with Gandhi and Joan of Arc and dates Cleopatra.
• He has a lightsaber duel with George W. Bush in Robot Chicken. He's also voiced by Hulk Hogan.
• Futurama, in a robot mental hospital:
  (Fry and another robot come upon a robotic Abraham Lincoln.)
  Fry: Lemme guess. He thinks he's Lincoln.
  Robot: Well he's supposed to. The problem is he's got multiple personalities, all of them Lincoln.
  Robo-Lincoln: I was born in 200 log cabins.
  • Not to mention Evil Holographic Lincoln, as seen when the Holoshed on the Nimbus goes on the fritz again.
  • Also, his head in a jar (and George Washington's) appear in a President's Day commercial for Malfunctioning Eddie's Used Cars.
• One episode of the Super Friends had Kid Side Kick's Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog watching a computerized maths lesson, when the computer started malfunctioning it merged with a history lesson about Lincoln giving the equation '16 - 2 = 4 scores and 7 years ago....'
• One episode of Dexter's Laboratory has Dexter animate Lincoln's head from the Mount Rushmore memorial into a Humongous Golem, to do battle with the giant George Washington his rival Mandark created. To make a long story short...

  Statue Lincoln:(speaking for the first time) 'It appears we are evenly matched.'

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 'No one can stop Time Lincoln. No one ever-'
• Appears in the Time Squad episode where he got fed up for being so honest and starts joining prankster gangs while calling himself 'Dishonest Abe'. He got better.
  • Also mentioned in the Buffalo Bill episode as having apparently won the election by using the third eye he apparently hid under his hat to hypnotize his opponent.
• In an episode of Teen Titans Go!Starfire tells her own version of the story of Abe Lincoln which ends with him and John Wilkes Booth becoming best friends and still being alive today.
• South Park. Cult leader David Blaine brought the Lincoln statue to life. Jesus and friends defeated it by building and animating a John Wilkes Boothe statue.
  • In 'The List' Kyle is supposedly voted the ugliest boy in class by the girls, and Craig (voted the handsomest) consoles him that Abraham Lincoln was ugly too. Later Abe's ghost appears to Kyle and tries to convince him that ugliness will make him a more competent adult, but fails.
• Family Guy. There was this Biblical joke about 'Abraham (Lincoln) killing Isaac (the bartender from The Love Boat).'
  • Another episode showed that Booth killed him for talking on his cellphone during the play.
    • And in another it was because he was in the seat behind him and he couldn't see the through his hat.
  • A parody of Mentos ads involved Booth shooting through his hat. Cut to the Griffins watching it, and most of them question whether the ad even had a message. Peter then stands up, and walks off while saying (as if hypnotized), 'Must... kill... Lincoln....'
  • In the episode 'Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater', Peter finds a bunch of photos that show Lincoln, (among with other 19th century politicans) visiting a brothel. Apparently he had jungle fever.
  • In 'The Man with Two Brians', he notices neighbor Dale's lawn is overgrown. Dale is pissed off at Lincoln because he freed the slave that used to mow the lawn for him.
  • Stewie refers to the Amish as 'Abraham Lincoln people' in 'Amish Guy'.
  • Brian worries that he'll stick out while posing as Meg in 'Our Idiot Brian', like the one guy in Lincoln's cabinet without a beard.
  • His body appears in a cutaway parodying The Nightmare Before Christmas where Jack decides to take over the fourth of July instead of Christmas.
  • He appeared in 'Yug Ylimaf' when Brian took a date to Ford's Theatre during the assassination. afterwards Statler and Waldorf appeared but when Statler cracks one of his remarks, he is also shot in the head.
• In the Adventure Time pilot, Abraham Lincoln transports Finn/Pen's mind back in time. And to Mars.
  • Becomes a Mythology Gag in 'Sons of Mars,' when Abraham Lincoln is the King of Mars, whom Finn refers to as 'the wisest, most honest superbeing of all time.' He accidentally kills Jake, mistaking him for Magic Man, and then revives him by surrendering his immortality to Death, which turns him into the Lincoln Memorial.
• An episode of American Dad! revealed he invented peanut butter and there is an Illuminatiesque organisation dedicated to covering it up.
• In the first season finale of Rick and Morty it's revealed that Rick combined the DNA of him and Adolf Hitler to create Abradolf Lincler he now see's him as an Old Shame
• The Simpsons:
  • The Halloween Episode 'How To Succeed In Dead-vertising' implied he was gay.
  • 'Bart to the Future' is based around a vision Bart has where, thirty years down the road, Lisa is president. Living with her in the White House, Homer becomes obsessed with finding the treasure Lincoln supposedly buried on the grounds.
  • In 'Mountain of Madness', Homer and Mr. Burns are trapped in a snowed-in cabin, succumbing to Cabin Fever. Before fighting, Homer asks 'You and what army?', before imagining an army of snowmen behind Burns, prompting him to say 'Stay back, I have powers! Uh, political powers!', imagining various political leaders including Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi behind him.
  Lincoln: (swinging a chain) IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S SHOWTIME!
  • Bart once saw him in an Imagine Spot where he was sailing down the Mississippi River on a raft with Huckleberry Finn when Bart asked what Abe Lincoln was doing there he replied, 'I dunno, your daydream.'
  • In a later episode Homer had an imagine spot were he saved his life by knocking out John Wilkes Booth then later they teamed up to save Kennedy.
  • A rapping animatronic Abe Lincoln appeared at 'Duff Gardens.'
  • In 'The Color Yellow' he appeared to help an escaped black slave who was a direct ancestor of the Simpsons escape to Canada, he eventually named his son after him who's name was passed on to Abe 'Grampa' Simpson.
  • Homer once claimed he thought there was a midget in his hat.
• Lincoln appeared in a picture in every single ending credits for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, inexplicably lighting a wooden rocket that the protagonists are riding in. This is expanded in the fictitious backstory that Shake provided for the group in The Movie, where this incarnation of Lincoln is known as 'Time Lincoln,' who aided the heroes after they escaped from Egypt.
• The Venture Bros. meet Lincoln's ghost, who then helps them thwart a Manchurian Candidate-style assassination plot against the current president.
• Peter Renaday has voiced Lincoln in several different cartoons as well as Disney Theme Parks:
  • In an episode of Animaniacs where, after he signed their autograph book, the Warner siblings helped him to compose the Gettysburg Address.
  • He is still the President in both Evil Con Carne and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
  • The Series Finale of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, whose Cold Opening has Batman and a parallel universe's Lincoln teaming up to defeat a steampunk cyborg John Wilkes Booth.
• In A Brief History of the United States of America by Flickerlab's Harold Moss, when the Union wins the Civil War, the freed slaves give Lincoln a blanket toss in celebration.
• Stalemated George Washington on Celebrity Deathmatch.
• Earthworm Jim once got a talking sword that had the power of Time Travel. The sword ordered Jim to test it by going back into Lincoln's time and shave his beard. The sword believed the only change it'd cause would be the beard disappearing from the coins bearing Lincoln's face. Instead, it destroyed Lincoln's credibility and created a timeline where the Confederacy won. The sword angrily told Jim to get back and restore Lincoln's beard.
• In one episode of Pinky and the Brain, the Brain, knowing that Americans crave an honest politician, devises a scheme that involves using a mechanism to speak through the Lincoln Memorial and convince everyone that Lincoln's spirit has returned and is living inside it. His plan works until the oldest living American, who heard Lincoln make a speech when he was five years old, hears the Brain talk, and realizes that it isn't Lincoln's voice. (The man claims that 'the real Lincoln had a raspy voice... well, more like Tony Danza'.) It should be noted Lincoln's voice was described as being a little shrill and high, so it is slightly accurate.