Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was one of the great American sculptors. In 1893, French was a founding member of the National Sculpture Society, he also became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1917, he designed the Pulitzer Prize gold medal presented to laureates. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920) at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Lincoln has consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest of all U.S. Presidents.

There is no known provenance for the quote ‘My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure’, but it is widely attributed to Lincoln.

About Lincoln Memorial Statue

Abraham Lincoln (the statue) is a colossal seated figure of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sculpted in marble. The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor.

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