His cabinet was troubled by internal hatred. Lincoln was the first President not born in one of the thirteen original colonies. Also, he was the first President from the Republican Party. Prior to his election as President, seven Southern states had seceded from the Union.
On average a young man starts growing facial hair around 15 to 16 years of age. It starts in the fourth stage in Tanner's Stages of Puberty. Because boys start puberty at different ages and progress at different rates, it is considered normal to have facial hair as young as 11 or to not start developing facial hair until as late as 17. To estimate what stage of development you are in, see the Tanner Stage Calculator for Boys.
The first identifiable hair follicles appear at about 9 weeks of age, after the embryo has begun to mature into a fetus. The first follicles develop in the areas that will eventually become the eyebrows, upper lip and chin. Hair follicle development on body, face and scalp then occurs in successive waves beginning at fetal age of 4 to 5 months. The fully mature 9-month fetus usually has all of the hair follicles that will ever develop in that person. It is believed that, under normal circumstances, new hair follicles do not develop in an adult.