Hamlin, Hannibal

statesman, born in Maine, 1809, practiced law from 1833 till 1851, having become meanwhile a member of the Legislature and Speaker of the House for three years. In 1843 he was elected to Congre by the Democrats, and there distinguished himself as an opponent of slavery. In 1848 he became a member of the U. S. Senate, and in 1856 left his party to enter the ranks of the newly-formed Republican opposition. In 1857 he was elected governor of his native State, reëlected Senator in 1857, and in 1860 he was elected Vice-President of the United States on the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln. He presided over the Senate with great dignity. In Jan., 1869, he was again sent to the Senate, and was reëlected in 1875; was U. S. minister to Spain (1881). Died in 1891. Ham'lin, in South Dakota , an E. co.; area, 545 sq. m. Intersected by Big Sioux river, and contains several lakes. Surface , undulating; timber scarce; soil , fertile. Products, wheat, oats, barley, corn, potatoes and other vegetables. Cap . Castle wood. Pop . (1895) 5,225. Ham'line University. ( Educ .) A collegiate institution located at Hamline, St. Paul, Minn., founded in 1854 by Bishop Hamline, of the Methodist Church, at Red Wing, Minn., where it remained 15 years. It is open to both sexes, and offers two courses of study, a scientific and a cla ical, each four years in length.