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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / USHannibal HAMLIN
(1809-1891)
Senate Years of Service:
1848-1857; 1857-1861; 1869-1881Party: Democrat; Republican;
RepublicanHAMLIN, Hannibal, a
Representative and a Senator from Maine and a Vice President of the
United States; born at Paris Hill, Oxford County, Maine, August 27,
1809; attended the district schools and Hebron Academy; took charge
of the family farm and worked as a surveyor, compositor in a
printing office, and school teacher; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1833 and practiced in Hampden, Penobscot County, until 1848;
member, State house of representatives 1836-1841, 1847, and served
as speaker in 1837, 1839, and 1840; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); chairman, Committee on
Elections (Twenty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1846; elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1848 by the
anti-slavery wing of the Democratic party to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John Fairfield; reelected in 1850 and served
from June 8, 1848, to January 7, 1857, when he resigned to become
Governor; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-first through
Thirty-fourth Congresses); Committee on Printing (Thirty-second
Congress); left the Democratic Party in 1856; Governor of Maine
January to February 1857, when he resigned; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1857, until
his resignation, effective January 17, 1861, to become vice
president; elected Vice President of the United States on the
ticket with Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865; appointed collector of the
port of Boston in 1865 but resigned in 1866; again elected to the
United States Senate in 1869; reelected in 1875 and served from
March 4, 1869, until March 3, 1881; was not a candidate for
renomination; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia
(Forty-first Congress), Committee on Manufactures (Forty-second
Congress), Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
(Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Forty-fifth Congress); United States Minister to Spain
from 1881 to 1882, when he resigned; devoted the remainder of his
life to agricultural pursuits; died in Bangor, Maine, July 4, 1891;
interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hunt, H. Draper. Hannibal Hamlin: Lincoln’s
First Vice President. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University
Press, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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