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Ken Griffin Pays Record $13.7 Million for Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin now owns copies of  the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s 13th Amendment.
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin now owns copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s 13th Amendment. Photo: Sotheby’s

Billionaire Ken Griffin just bought two of the most significant documents ever signed by President Abraham Lincoln, adding to his trove of Americana. 

Griffin reset the record for any document signed by Lincoln when he paid Sotheby’s $13.7 million on Thursday for a rare, handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment. The president signed the single sheet of vellum in 1865 ending slavery nationwide, and it is one of only four surviving copies to remain in private hands.

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