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HAMLIN, HANNIBAL (1809-189x)

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HAMLIN, See also:HANNIBAL (1809-189x) , See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States (1861-1865), was See also:born at See also:Paris, See also:Maine, on the 27th of See also:August 1809. After studying in See also:Hebron See also:Academy, he 'conducted his See also:father's See also:farm for a See also:time, became schoolmaster, and later managed a weekly newspaper at Paris. He then studied See also:law, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1833, and rapidly acquired a reputation as an able lawyer and a, See also:good public See also:speaker. Entering politics as an See also:anti-See also:slavery Democrat, he was a memberof the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1836-184o, serving as its presiding officer during the last four years. He was a representative in See also:Congress from 1843 to 1847, and was a member of the United States See also:Senate from 1848 to 1856. From the very beginning of his service in Congress he was prominent as an opponent of the See also:extension of slavery; he was a conspicuous supporter of the See also:Wilmot Proviso, spoke against the See also:Compromise See also:Measures of-185o, and in 1856, chiefly because of the passage in 1854 of the See also:Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill, which repealed the See also:Missouri Compromise, and his party's endorsement of that See also:repeal at the See also:Cincinnati See also:Convention two years later, he withdrew from the Democrats and joined the newly organized Republican party. The Republicans of Maine nominated him for See also:governor in the same See also:year, and having carried the See also:election by a large See also:majority he was inaugurated in this See also:office on the 8th of See also:January 1857. In the latter See also:part of See also:February, however, he resigned the governor-See also:ship, and was again a member of the Senate from 1857 to January 1861. From 1861 to 1865, during the See also:Civil See also:War, he was Vice-President of the United States. `While in this office he was one of the See also:chief advisers of President See also:Lincoln, and urged both the Emancipation See also:Proclamation and the arming of the negroes. After the war he again served in the Senate (1869-1881), was See also:minister to See also:Spain (1881-1883), and then retired from public See also:life. He died at See also:Bangor, Maine, on the 4th of See also:July 1891.

See Life and Tinies of Hannibal Hamlin (See also:

Cambridge, See also:Mass., 1899), by C. E. Hamlin, his See also:grandson.

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