<human>:  With regards to the Gettysburg Address, who was the first person to read the address?
<bot>: The first person to read the Gettysburg Address was Abraham Lincoln himself. Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He was elected to office in 1860, and was inaugurated in 1861. He is remembered for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the US. He was assassinated in 1865.