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Hannibal Emery Hamlin (August 22, 1858 – March 6, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. His father, Hannibal Hamlin, served as Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Hamlin grew up in Bangor, Maine and graduated from Colby College in 1879 and Boston University School of Law in 1882.
Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term.
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Sposato con Sarah Jane Emery di Paris Hill dal 1833, ebbe da lei quattro figli: George, Charles, Cyrus e Sarah. Dopo la morte della moglie nel 1855, sposò la sorellastra di lei, Ellen Vesta Emery, nel 1856. Da Ellen ebbe altri due figli: Hannibal E. e Frank. Ellen gli sopravvisse fino al 1925.
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Eletto al Senato per i Democratici per un breve periodo nel 1848, venne poi rieletto per un intero mandato nel 1851.Al termine del mandato, lasciò i Democratici per entrare nelle file dei Repubblicani, suscitando un certo scalpore nel Paese.Eletto 26º Governatore del Maine nel 1857, dopo poco più di un mese rassegnò le dimissioni per tornare di nuovo al Senato, stavolta però nel Partito Repubblicano, fino al gennaio del 1861. Eletto vicepresidente sotto Lincoln, non ebbe mai familiarità o ami...
(EN) Hannibal Hamlin, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.(EN) Opere di Hannibal Hamlin, su Open Library, Internet Archive.13 giu 2024 · 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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Hamlin originally entered the U.S. Senate as a Democrat but he was one of the few Democrats to vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he did not want slavery to spread into the territories. He renounced his affiliation with the Democratic Party in 1856 and served in the Senate until 1857 when he resigned to run for governor.
In short, Hamlin demonstrates the crucial importance of the Bible for Shakespeare. His focus on the Bible also permits Hamlin to produce some biblically-based glosses on Shakespeare's plays that sometimes rival the hermeneutics generated by the sacred text itself.
the daily life of English Christians during the early modern period. As Hannibal Hamlin points out in this excellent monograph, the psalms were “recorded in diaries, interpreted in commentaries and sermons, alluded to in the sacred texts of the liturgy and in the secular plays of the theater alike; they were among the most
