Abraham Lincoln in 1862 delivered a message to the United States Congress in which he looked at the population of the United States from 1790, the first United States census, until 1860. Here are the figures Lincoln gave to Congress. These figures are in millions of people in the United States.
1790.....3,929,827
1800.....5,305,937
1810.....7,239,814
1820.....9,638,131
1830....12,866,020
1840....17,069,453
1850....23,191,876
1860....31,443,790
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