Hannibal Hamlin
DATE OF BIRTH: August 27, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris
DATE OF DEATH: July 4, 1891
PLACE OF DEATH: Bangor
PROFESSION: Lawyer
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Republican
TERM IN OFFICE: January 8, 1857 – February 26, 1857
FIRST LADY: Ellen V. Emery
QUOTE: In a State like ours, where the industrial pursuits are so varied, with a large population upon the frontier still progressing into, and subduing the forests, there is undoubtedly a greater necessity for legislation, than in a community where its industry has become settled and systematized.
Inaugural Address, January 8, 1857
OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES:State Representative (Speaker of the House), Congressman, U. S. Senator, Vice President during Abraham Lincoln’s first term, Collector of Customs for Boston, Minister to Spain
FURTHER READING:
Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine of the 19th Century. Boston: Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Company, 1885, pp. 33-39.
Chase, Henry. Representative Men of Maine. Portland: The Lakeside Press, 1893, p. XXXVII.
Hamlin, Charles E. The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1899
“Hon. Hannibal Hamlin,” Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. Bangor, January, 1893, pp. 1-7.
Hunt, H. Draper. Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s First Vice President. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1969.
Hunt, H. Draper. “Hannibal Hamlin,” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, Vol. 9, pp. 936-938.
Robinson, William A. “Hannibal Hamlin,” Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933, Vol. 13, pp. 196-198.