Abraham Lincoln (U.S.A)
(1809-65) 16th president of the US 1861-65.A Republican, his election to the presidency on the anti-slavery platform helped to precipitate the Civil War,which was fought during his administration. He was assassinated shortly after the warended and before he could fulfill his campaign promise to reconcile the North and the South. He was noted for his succinct, eloquent speeches,including the Gettysburg Address of 1863.
Mao Zedong (China)
(1983-1976),Chinese stateman;chairman of the Communist party of the Chinese People's Republic 1949-76;head of state 1949-59. A cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and its effective leader from the time of the Long March (1943-35),he eventually defeated both the occupying Japanese and rival Kuomintang nationalist forces to create the People's Republic of China in 1949.
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