Hannibal
Auteur: Mark Scroggins
Nombre de pages: 316 pages
ISBN: 0819194409, 9780819194404
Edition: University Press of America
Date de publication: University Press of America
Description: 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.