Abraham Lincoln

February 12,1809 – April 15,1865

Abraham Lincoln,16th President of U.S. suffered from severe and debilitating and on occasion suicidal depressions,as recorded by Carl Sandburg in his comprehensive six-volume biographical analysis of his life. “A tendency to melancholy” Lincoln once wrote in a letter to a friend,“…let it be observed,is a misfortune,not a fault.” The most amazing part of his story was the sheer determination with which he willed himself to overcome his serious affliction and still achieve all he was able to achieve for our young and troubled nation at war with itself.