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Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term.
0–9. 1842–43 United States House of Representatives elections; 1844–45 United States House of Representatives elections; 1848–49 United States Senate elections
On election day, 8 September 1856, incumbent Democratic governor Samuel Wells lost re-election by a margin of 25,946 votes against his foremost opponent Republican nominee Hannibal Hamlin, thereby losing Democratic control over the office of governor to the Republicans. Hamlin was sworn in as the 26th governor of Maine on 8 January 1857. [2]
The Hannibal Hamlin House is a historic house at 15 5th Street in Bangor, Maine.Built c. 1848–51, this well-preserved Italianate house was the home of U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin from 1862 until his death in 1891.
In If the South Had Won the Civil War by MacKinlay Kantor, Hannibal Hamlin became president in 1863, after the Confederates achieved a decisive victory and Robert E. Lee's troops occupied Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln, held prisoner in Richmond, sent northwards a letter announcing his resignation, making Hamlin the new president. It fell to ...
This was the 19th inauguration and marked the commencement of the first, and eventually only full term of Abraham Lincoln as president and the only term of Hannibal Hamlin as vice president. The presidential oath of office was administered to Lincoln by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. [2]
Hannibal Emery Hamlin (August 22, 1858 – March 6, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. [1] His father, Hannibal Hamlin, served as Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Hamlin grew up in Bangor, Maine and graduated from Colby College in 1879 and Boston University School of Law in 1882. In 1883 he joined ...
Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. However, when Lincoln's prospects in the 1864 United States presidential election appeared to be dimming, [1] Lincoln replaced Hamlin with Andrew Johnson, a slave-owning Southern Unionist who was the only member of the U.S. Senate from a secessionist state who stayed loyal to the federal government at the outbreak of the ...