Hamlin

Hamlin, HANNIBAL, statesman, was born in Paris, Maine, 27th August 1809, practised law from 1833 to 1848, was speaker of the Maine house of representatives in 1837-40, and was returned to congress in 1842. He sat in the United States senate as a Democrat in 1848-57, when he was elected governor by the Republicans, as opposing the extension of slavery to new territories. He was generally in the senate till his death, 4th July 1891; was vice-president under Lincoln, ambassador to Spain, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and an LL.D.