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3 unusual facts about Hannibal Hamlin


Hannibal Hamlin

Hamlin County, South Dakota, is named in his honor, as are Hamlin, Kansas Hamlin, New York, Hamlin, West Virginia, and both Hamlin Township and Hamlin Lake, Mason County, Michigan.

Hannibal's first cousin Cyrus Hamlin, who was a graduate of the Bangor Theological Seminary, became a missionary in Turkey, where he founded Robert College.

The Chicago Lincoln

The statue displays Lincoln as he appeared when visiting Chicago for various speeches and events such as the River and Harbor Convention or when meeting Vice President Hannibal Hamlin to discuss the organization of his Cabinet.


Maine in the American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Hamlin as his first Vice President, and said on meeting Brunswick novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), "so this is the little lady who made this big war".


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