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Hannibal Hamlin (* 27. August 1809 in Paris, Massachusetts; † 4. Juli 1891 in Bangor, Maine) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Er war Vizepräsident der Vereinigten Staaten in der ersten Amtszeit von Präsident Abraham Lincoln von 1861 bis 1865.
Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 15th vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.
Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th vice president of the United States (1861–65) in the Republican administration of President Abraham Lincoln. Hamlin was the son of Cyrus Hamlin, a physician, sheriff, and farmer, and Anna Livermore. After practicing law, he entered politics as an antislavery Jacksonian.
Hamlin originally entered the U.S. Senate as a Democrat but he was one of the few Democrats to vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he did not want slavery to spread into the territories. He renounced his affiliation with the Democratic Party in 1856 and served in the Senate until 1857 when he resigned to run for governor. Although he ...
Hannibal Hamlin works on Renaissance literature, especially the Bible and its influence on authors including Shakespeare, Philip and Mary Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Milton and Bunyan. He is an expert on the Psalms and their early modern translation into poetic meters and literary forms.
Hannibal Hamlin owed his classical name to the influence of his grandfather, who loved the great military figures of ancient history. Tall, with piercing black eyes and olive-colored skin, the courteous and affable Hamlin proved to be a natural politician.
In The Bible in Shakespeare, Hannibal Hamlin impressively makes good on his claim to provide the first “full-length critical study of Shakespeare’s practice of biblical allusion” (2).
