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Description/History:
(1809-1891) A retouched standing pose of Lincoln’s first
vice president who championed the rights of black
American’s, and urged the president to free the slaves,
thus using the excess manpower to bolster the ranks of
the Union army. In fact, Lincoln allowed Hamlin to review
the Emancipation Proclamation before he released it to
the public on Sept. 22, 1862. As the war progressed,
Hamlin became an ever-increasing Radical Republican,
and therefore Lincoln decided to undermine Hamlin’s
re-nomination as vice president. In the post-war years,
he served on the Foreign Relations Committee, and
supported the Reconstruction policies of his party.
Retiring from public life in 1882, he died July 4, 1891
of a heart attack.
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