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through the house, and was named by the anti- slavery Democrats as speaker. He was the candidate of the anti-slavery Democrats before the state legislature as U.S. senator in 1846, but was defeated by one vote after the legislature had balloted six weeks. He was elected a rep- resentative in the state legislature in 1847 and in May, 1848, was elected by a majority of one vote U.S. senator to lill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator John Fairfield and which was at the time of his election held temporarily by W. B. S. Moor, appointed to the vacancy by Governor Dana. He was re-elected in 1850 for a full sena- torial term after a dead-lock in the legislature for three months. He renounced his allegiance to the Democratic party on the nomination of Buchanan in 1856, became the Republican can- didate for governor of Maine, and was elected by 25,000 plurality. He resigned from the senate on Feb. 6, 1857, to assume the governorship and was succeeded in the U.S. senate by Amos Nourse. He was again elected to the U.S. senate in 1857 and resigned the governorship Feb. 20, 1857, to take his seat in the senate, March 4, 1857. He resigned the senatorship, Jan. 1, 1861, having been elected Vice-President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln for President and was succeeded in the senate by Lot M. Morrill. He presided over the senate throughout the first term of Mr. Lincoln's administration. In 1864 his party gave the vice-presidential nomination to the south, the administration fearing the recog- nition of the independence of the southern Con- federacy by Great Britain and France unless the Eepublican party took its vice-presidential can- didate from a central southern state. He de- clined the secretaryship of the treasury offered him by President Lincoln; was appointed col- lector of the port of Boston by President John- son in 1865 and resigned the lucrative office in 1866 as he disapproved of the policy of the Presi- dent. He was again elected U.S. .senator in 1869 and for the fifth time in 1875. He declined re- election in 1881, after a service of twenty-five years as U.S. senator, during which time he had held the chairmanship of the committees on com- merce, post-offices and post-roads, and of foreign affairs. In 1881 President Garfield offered him the position of U.S. minister to Germany, Italy or Spain, and he accepted the mission to Spain, but resigned the post in 1883. He was regent of the Smithsonian institution, ex officio, 1861-65,

and by appointment, 1870-82, and was for a time dean of the board. He received the degree of LL. D. from Colby in 1859, and was trustee of the institution, 1857-91. He was the third citizen of the United States who had been elected and served as Vice-President to die on the nation's birthday. He was twice married, both of his wives being daughters of Judge Stephen Emery of Paris Hill, JMaine. He died at the Tanatine Club rooms, Bangor, Maine, July 4, 1891.

HAMLINE, Leonidas Lent, M.E. bishop, was born in Burlington, Conn., May 10, 1797. He was educated with a view to being a Congrega- tional minister, but abandoned that purpose and studied law. He removed to Lancaster, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar and practised. He began his career as a Methodist itinerant preacher in 1828, and served the Ohio conference for over eight years. He was assistant editor of the Western Christian Advocate, 1836-40, and of the Ladies' depository, 1840-44. He was a delegate to the General conference in New York, May and June, 1844, and was by that conference elected a bishop. He served as bishop, 1844-50, and then was obliged to give up the labor on account of impaired health. The general conference re- lieved him from the duties of bishop in 1852. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Wes- leyan in 1844. Dr. Walter C. Palmer published "Life and Letters of Bishop Hamline'" (1867). He died in Mount Plea.sant, Iowa, March 23, 1865.

HAMMOND, Charles, journalist, was born in Baltimore count}', Md., in September, 1779. In 1785 he removed with his parents to Ohio county, Va., where he attended school in winter and worked on a farm in summer. In 1801 he was admitted to the bar, and practised for a time in Wells burg, Va. Susequently he removed to Ohio, where he served in the legislature, 1816-18, and 1820, and reported for the Ohio supreme court, 1823-28. About 1811 he published in the Scioto Gazette articles defending the conduct of Gen. Arthur St. Clair, at the evacuation of Fort Ticon- deroga, which brought him into notice as a news- paper writer. He published the Ohio Federalist at St. Clairsville, 1813-17, and edited the Gazette in Cincinnati, 1825-40. He prepared and pub- lished Beports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1821-39 (9 vols., 1833-40). He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 3, 1840.

HAMMOND, Edward Payson, evangelist, was born in Ellington, Conn., Sept. 1, 1831; son of Elijah and Esther (Griswold) Hammond, and direct descendant from Thomas Hammond, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1635. His mother was a descendant from George Griswold of Ken- ilworth, England, from whom also descended Governors Matthew and Roger Griswold of Con- necticut. Edward was graduated at Williams