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Griffin, the founder and chief executive of Citadel, broke the auction record for a Lincoln-signed document.

Ken Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were signed by Abraham Lincoln.

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

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ken Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were signed by Abraham Lincoln.

Although Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it was more than two years later that most enslaved people in the Confederate states were set free from bondage. And ...