(A) Twenty third
(B) ** Sixteenth
(C) Thirteenth
(D) Ninth
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Concept note-1: -Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
Concept note-2: -Abraham Lincoln’s career as America’s 16th president spanned about four years, from March 4, 1861 to his murder on April 15, 1865, by a Confederate sympathizer. Long before entering Washington, Lincoln’s life was in danger; his entire presidency was marked by civil war and contentious conditions.