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With his strong abolitionist views, he left the Democratic Party for the newly formed Republican Party in 1856. In the 1860 general election, Hamlin balanced the successful Republican ticket as a New Englander partnered with the Northwesterner Lincoln.
Hamlin entered politics when he was first elected to the Maine state House of Representatives in 1835. As a Jacksonian Democrat who strongly opposed slavery, he served in state government until he was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1843.
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Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th vice president of the United States (1861–65) in the Republican administration of President Abraham Lincoln. Hamlin was the son of Cyrus Hamlin, a physician, sheriff, and farmer, and Anna Livermore. After practicing law, he entered politics as an antislavery Jacksonian.
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Apr 13, 2015 · In 1854, when popular sovereignty champion Stephen A. Douglas had proposed splitting the Missouri Territory into the states of free Nebraska and slave Kansas, Hamlin was one of only four...
Sep 4, 2018 · He was well noted for “his fidelity to political friends.” Hamlin came to regard himself as the least important man in Washington. He referred to himself as “a fifth wheel on a coach” and called the Vice President “a contingent somebody.” Hamlin made his views on issues known to Lincoln and gave his advice when asked, which was not ...
Hamlin was removed from the Union ticket in June 1864 because Republicans wanted a “War Democrat” for political balance—although President himself told one delegate “I see no reason for a change.” 9 A conflict with Fessenden, who became Lincoln’s secretary of the Treasury in July 1864 only to resign in early 1865, placed Hamlin in a ...
Hamlin's political career began as a Democrat, though he was well known to oppose the extension of slavery and favored the Wilmot Proviso. In 1854, he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise.
