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Hannibal Hamlin was a politician and attorney from Maine who served in the public service for over fifty years. Hamlin served as the fifteenth vice president of the United States under President Lincoln from 1861 to 1865.
He was one of the most influential Republican politicians from Maine who was initially a Democrat.
Early Life
Hannibal was born in Pris (present-day Maine) to Cyrus and Anna Hamlin. He was the grand-nephew of Senator Samuel Livermore and a descendant of James Hamlin, an English colonist who settled in Massachusetts Bay in 1639.
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Hamlin attended a district school before joining Hebron Academy. After school, he managed his family’s farm, but from 1827 to 1839 he partnered with Horatio King to publish a newspaper called "Oxford Jeffersonian". Hamlin studied law with Samuel Fessenden’s firm and passed his bar exams in 1833.
He practiced law in Hampden Maine until 1848. He married Jane Emery in 1833, and t