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It’s been 171 years since a Kentuckian last took a serious run at the White House — so why not Rand Paul? http://t.co/mQmDMvf5MM
— POLITICO (@politico) April 6, 2015
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171 years ago it was 1844. Abe Lincoln, who ran for President in 1860 and won, was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky:
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, was the first president born west of the Appalachian Mountains. His birth in a log cabin at Sinking Springs Farm took place on February 12, 1809, when that part of Kentucky was still a rugged frontier.
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