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Description for Hannibal
Hardback. This biography describes Hannibal Hamlin's ancestors and boyhood before tracing his career through the Maine legislature and US House of Representatives. Num Pages: 324 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
This book describes the life of Abraham Lincoln's first vice-president, Hannibal Hamlin. The author describes Hamlin's ancestors and boyhood before tracing his career through the Maine legislature, U.S. House of Representatives, and his course as one of the most powerful senators in the country during the 1850s. Hamlin is most widely known for being the first vice-president to Abraham Lincoln, yet, ironically this position was his most powerless in his sixty years of public service.
This book describes the life of Abraham Lincoln's first vice-president, Hannibal Hamlin. The author describes Hamlin's ancestors and boyhood before tracing his career through the Maine legislature, U.S. House of Representatives, and his course as one of the most powerful senators in the country during the 1850s. Hamlin is most widely known for being the first vice-president to Abraham Lincoln, yet, ironically this position was his most powerless in his sixty years of public service.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819194404
SKU
V9780819194404
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99-15
About Mark Scroggins
Mark Scroggins is an independent scholar and archivist at Oklahoma City University.
Reviews for Hannibal
...would be an important purchase for any student of political history to examine the forces and compromises that moved the Nation ahead in the nineteenth century.
Chuck Hamsa, CAMPFIRE
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A friendly, sometimes irreverent, biography of a little known and probably underappreciated American.
Lloyd K. Musselman, Oklahoma City University
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Chuck Hamsa, CAMPFIRE
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A friendly, sometimes irreverent, biography of a little known and probably underappreciated American.
Lloyd K. Musselman, Oklahoma City University
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