The Presidency of Hannibal Hamlin

March 6, 1860: Speech on slavery in New Haven, Connecticut

May 18, 1860: Nominated to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States

November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president

December 20, 1860: South Carolina secedes from the Union shortly followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.

February 11, 1861: Lincoln Leaves Springfield for Washington

March 4: President Lincoln delivers his First Inaugural Address

March 10: (POD) President Lincoln takes to his bed suffering from severe headaches.

March 21: President Lincoln Passes in the night after nearly two weeks of relentless decline (bacterial meningitis).

March 22: Hannibal Hamlin of Maine Sworn as 17th President of the United States.


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