Listen "Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's First Vice President with Jack Furniss"
Episode Synopsis
Jack Furniss, historian of Civil War era party politics, discusses why Maine Republican Hannibal Hamlin made an attractive vice president for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, why he was dropped from the ticket in 1864, and what a Hamlin administration might have looked like.
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