The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-06
nANNrnAn HAD11IN DEAD.
Tho Last of tho Ez-yIce Presidents stricks
While Playing Social Game Of Cards.

HANNIBAL f1EANAAAlRN 0AsEADs
Tho Last of tho Ex-Vice Presidents Stricken
While Playing Social Game Of Cards.
BANGOR, 8iE., July 5.-Ex. Vice PresI-
dent Hannibal Hamlin died last night
ut s:l5 o'clock. He was down town in
the afternoon and wentto the Tarratine
Club rooms, where he was playing ped
TO when his head fell forward on his
chest 4 gentleman remarked:
"The Senator seems to feel badly"
Mr.. Hamlin said: II do"
The men gathered around him andhe
was taken to lounge. DR.. Robinson,
who was in Che next room, attended
him, and afterwards Drs. Mason and
Phillips were called. No pulse were
visible for an hour, and il. was thought
they could not bring him out. Finally
he revived somewhat and managed TO
articulate freely. The doctors worked
over him faithfully and his family was
sent for. Soon Mrs. Hamilin, his son
and his wife and other members of his
family wore at his side. All was done
for him in human power, but failed,
and he pasted away peacefully at S;l5
.. m. BE leaves widow and two sons,
zen. Charles Hamlin, lawyer, OF Ellis
worth, and Frank Hamlin, now living
in Chicago.
Hannibal Hamlin was born on q farm
near Paris, Oxford county, Me-, August
81, 1909. His father intended to give
him a collegiate education, but died
while the boy was going through pre-
paratory course. Thefeat Hamlip re-
turned home to take charge Of the farm,
and remained there until he was TWEEN
ty-one years old. Then he went to
town and learned the printers trade,
and wildcat work at the case took up
the study of the law, in 1888, being
then twenty-four years old, he was adj
mitted to practice in Hampden, Penob-
scot county. Here he made his home
until 1S4S. Within three years after
he was admitted to the bar he was cleo
ted as u Democrat to the State Legisla-
ture, and was returned for four years.
The second year OF his service, 1883, he
was elected Speaker Of the House, and
again in 1889 and 1870 he was honored
in the same way.
In 1910 he received the Democratic
nomination for Congress. TWAS during
the exciting days of the Harrison cam
paign and Hamlin stirred up the people
Of his district by discussing the issues
OF the time with his competitor at every
place possible in his district. He was
the first Maine man to introduce joint
discussions in Maine. But he failed Of
election that time. In 1912 and again
in 1914, however, he succeeded. n1S44
he had become so prominent in the
State that he was chosen to serve out
the unexpired term -four years. Of SEN
ator John Fairfield, who had died. He
was again elected for the full term in
1851, still as Democrat, but in 1857 re.
signed because he had been elected
Governor OF the State as q member Of
the recently born Republican party. In
less than a month j. Q. on February 20,
1859, he resigned his Office os Governor
because he had again been chosen SEN
ator for the State.
In the convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln us the leader Of the
Republican party Hamlin was placed
second on tile ticket. On his election
he resigned his Office as Senator and
from March 4, 1861, to March 8, 1865,
presided over the Senate. He was SOON
after appointed Collector Of the Port Of
Boston, an office that he resigned q
year later. In 1869 he was again elected
to the United States Senate and served
there until 1881, when he was sent as
American Minister to Spain. He held
this office but ohe year. From 1851 to
1855 Mr.. Hamlin acted as regent of1the
Smithsonian Institute and was again
appointed to that post in 1870. That
term lasted two years, during which
time he became Dean of the board.
He received the degree OF l. L. p.
from Colby University, then Wateryille
College, Of which he had served as
trustee for twenty years. Mr.. Hamlin
Joined the Republican party because OF
pro-slayery tendencies. 1t is he who
offered what is now known to history as
the Wilmot Proviso in the Twenty
ninth Congress- The Republican lead
ers OF the city never ceased to regret
that they did not nominate him with
Mr.. Lincoln in 1884 instead of putting
Andrew johnson on the ticket. The
later years of Mr.. Hanlin were passed
ut his old-fashioned house at the corner
OF Fifth and Hammond streets, Bangor,
which he had made his home early in
the days of the war.