Overview

• On June 26 at Sotheby’s New York sale, Griffin paid $13.7 million including premium for Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment, eclipsing the previous $2.4 million record
• At the same auction he acquired a signed 1864 Emancipation Proclamation for $4.4 million, securing one of 27 known copies
• With these additions, he now owns three of the nation’s key founding documents, complementing his 2021 $43.2 million Constitution purchase and a rare Bill of Rights printing
• Last month, he loaned his Constitution copy to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia with a $15 million gift that renamed its main hall the Kenneth C. Griffin Great Hall
• Griffin has pledged to make the 13th Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation available for public exhibition as part of his philanthropic mission to reinforce America’s democratic principles ahead of its 250th anniversary