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Hannibal Hamlin

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hannibal Hamlin 1809-91, Vice President of the United States (1861-65), b. Paris, Maine. Admitted to the bar in 1833, he practiced at Hampden, Maine. He was a Maine legislator (1836-40, 1847), a U.S. Representative (1843-47), and a U.S. Senator (1848-57). As a Democrat he supported Franklin Pierce's administration, but left (1856) his party when it adopted a strong proslavery platform, and joined the Republican party; in the same year he was elected governor of Maine. After a few weeks he resigned to reenter (1857) the U.S. Senate, where he became increasingly prominent. Geographical and political... Read more
Hannibal Hamlin Garland
Hannibal Hamlin Garland Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American author, augmented local-color writing...expressed the hardships of farmers of the northern prairies was Hamlin Garland's Main Traveled Roads (1891). Garland was born near West... Read more
Garland, (Hannibal) Hamlin
Garland, [Hannibal] Hamlin (1860–1940), born in Wisconsin, after sharing the oppressive labor of farm life there and in Iowa and South Dakota went... Read more

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