Hannibal: The Life of Abraham Lincoln's First Vice President

by Mark Scroggins

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780819194404
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	08/26/1994
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mark Scroggins is an independent scholar and archivist at Oklahoma City University.

Editorial Reviews

Hannibal is a very well researched, very well written biography of one of the least known political influences in the decade preceding the American Civil War.

Wisconsin Bookwatch

...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.

Wisconsin Bookwatch - Chuck Hamsa

A friendly, sometimes irreverent, biography of a little known and probably underappreciated American.

Wisconsin Bookwatch - Lloyd K. Musselman