Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin was vice-president of the United States during Abraham
Lincoln's first term (1861-1865).

He was born in Paris Hill, a district of South Paris, in Oxford County,
Maine on August 27, 1809.

He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1836 to 1841 then two
terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-1847). He was elected to
fill a Senate vacancy in 1848 and to a full term in 1851.

A Democrat, Hamlin supported the candidacy of Franklin Pierce in 1852.
However, he broke with the party over pro-slavery Democratic policies, and
on June 12, 1856, he left the party and joined the Republicans. This caused
a national sensation.

That same year Hamlin was elected the first Republican governor of Maine,
but served less than a month before returning to the Senate. He was chosen
for the second place on the Republican ticket in 1860. His identification
with Radical elements of the party caused him to be dropped from the ticket
in 1864.

Hamlin served in the Senate from 1869 to 1881. His last post was minister to
Spain (1881-1882).

He died in Bangor, Maine, on July 4, 1891.

There are biographies by his grandson Charles E. Hamlin (printed 1899,
reprinted 1971) and H. D. Hunt (printed 1969).

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