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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Bangor, Maine
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Hannibal Hamlin was appointed to served as vice president during the first term of Abraham Lincoln, but Lincoln rarely consulted him and ensured he was not renominated.


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Born in Maine in 1809, Hannibal Hamlin was appointed by the Republican National Convention in 1860 to serve as vice president to Abraham Lincoln. Their tenuous affiliation lasted only one term, but Hamlin went on to serve in the Senate and as foreign minister to Spain.

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