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Show Just History By Albert, F. Philips Bait 4 century In poUtlea tneana practically serving three genera- tions. Tot that is what the second Republican candidate for Vic president did and who was the first Republican elected to the position of vice president. Thla waa Hannibal Hanni-bal Hamlin. Today Is the .anniversary .anni-versary of hla birth. Ths statesman states-man from Mains waa one of the founders of ths Republican party and when ths Republican national convention was held that nominated nomi-nated Lincoln, Hamlin was chosen to run on the ticket with him. The ticket waa selected, receiving 10 electoral - yotea, while the popular vote waa l.tst.tbt, a plurality seat th ticket headed by Douglas and Johnson of 41.15. The early life of Hamlin waa spsnt on a farm and when he attained at-tained hla majority he edited and publish ed a country newspaper at Paris. Maine. Tiring of the grind a a country paper he studied law and waa admitted to the practice at Hampden, Main, and opened an office of-fice there In 1M. Two yeare later, in 11. he was elected to th legislature as a Democrat Dem-ocrat and b waa reelected In 1117. and 40, and waa the presiding officer of-ficer of the eenate. In 1140 he was 4 candidate for congress, but was defsated In the Whig landslide that ewept the country that year, but two years later he was again a candidate and waa successful. He waa reelected and served In congress fronvl41 to 1(47. During his congressional career he was an avowed antlslavsry man. Ha waa bitterly oppoeed to th annexation of Texas and was atrongly In favor of th Wilmot proviso. Thla waa a measure which placed S2.t00.t0d at th dlepoaal of th p real dent tor th purpose of making a treaty with Mexico, with which nation we were then at war. paying her that sum In return for a considerable territory. terri-tory. This wss in 1I4. To this measurs David Wilmot of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania moved a proviso prohibiting slavery In any territory that the United Btates might acquire from Mexico. Th bill aa amended passed ths houee, hut In the eenate It wa talked to death. Again In 1141 It waa moved In the houee aa a separata resolution Hamlin Introducing Intro-ducing It in the absence of Wilmot, I but failed tomss. It wss during this debate that- the doctrine of "squatter sovereignty" waa oevieea. . which let th people determine for themselves ths question of slavery. Mr. Hamlin wss elected to the senate In 114 to fill the vacancy due to the death of Senator Fair-child Fair-child and he wae reelected In ml. He resigned from the eenate when tn lt 4. he was sleeted governor and In turn he resigned ths governorship gover-norship In 11(7 to return to the sensts. to which he hsd again been looted. He waa nominated for vice president pres-ident at the convention that nominated nomi-nated Lincoln and the ticket, as stated, was elected. Then In IMS b ws again returned to ths senate, sen-ate, eerving until 1(11. H was then sent to Bps la as minister. He died In 11. |