Hannibal Hamlin
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Hannibal Hamlin was an American politician and diplomat who was the 15th vice president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first
Hamlin c. 1860–1865
Hamlin c. late 1840s
1860 election campaign button for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. The other side of the button has Lincoln's portrait.
Hamlin's grave
The National Union Party, commonly known as the Union Party, and sometimes as the Republican–Union coalition, was a coalition of Republicans, War Democrats, and Unconditional Unionists that supported
1864 National Union Party campaign banner
John Bell (left) and Edward Everett, candidates of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860
William H. Seward, secretary of state in Lincoln's administration and a key contributor to the Union Party strategy
First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861