Talk:Abraham Lincoln/Archive 7
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Abraham lincoln is the 16th U.S. president mother Nancy Hanks was claimed to be of African descent (EthiopianTigrayan descent- an Ethinic group in north Ethiopia)
According to historian William E. Barton, a rumor "current in various forms in several sections of the South" was that Lincoln's biological father was Gorge Enloe, which Barton dismissed as "false".[30] According to Doug Wead, Enloe publicly denied this connection to Lincoln but is reported to have privately confirmed it.[31] Another claim was that Lincoln was "part Negro",[32] but that was unproven.[33][34] According to Lincoln's law partner William H. Herndon, Lincoln had "very dark skin"[35] although "his cheeks were leathery and saffron-colored"[36] and "his face was ... sallow,"[36] and "his hair was dark, almost black".[37] Abraham Lincoln described himself ca. 1838–'39 as "black"[38] and his "complexion" in 1859 as "dark"[39] but whether he meant either in an ancestral sense is unknown. The Charleston Mercury described him as being "of ... the dirtiest complexion".