He became the sixteenth president of the United States

The second amazing major accomplishment of Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States on November 6, 1860. He earned about 500,000 more votes than his nearest challenger, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, despite winning only two of 996 counties in all of the Southern states. Lincoln was President from March 1861 until April 1865, when he was assassinated. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 elections and became the 16th president of the United States thanks to the North and West's backing.

He became the first Republican president after narrowly defeating his Democratic opponents. He received 1,866,452 votes, or 40% of the overall vote, putting him roughly 500.000 votes ahead of his opponents. He was victorious in the Northern states, including California, Oregon. Abraham Lincoln served as President of the United Stated from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.