ABRAHAM LINCOLN BORN IN KENTUCKY
Hodgenville, Kentucky (JFK+50) On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin sitting on Sinking Spring farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky*.
The future president was to be the first POTUS born outside the thirteen original colonies.
In a speech to the National Press Club in 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy said...
"Lincoln...loved politics with the passion of a born practitioner...
he waited up all night...to get...returns in the Ohio governorship (&) when the Unionist candidate was elected, Lincoln wired:
'Glory God in the highest, Ohio has saved the nation'"
*Hodgenville is located on the north fork of the Nolin River in LaRue County (Hardin County in 1809), Kentucky. Named after mill owner Robert Hodgen, the town was incorporated in 1836.
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