WI: President Hannibal Hamlim

Other ways for Hamlin to become President around this time -- Lincoln dies at Fort Stevens; alternatively, Lincoln is assassinated earlier, most intriguingly after the RNC, or even the election, but before the Electoral College.

EDIT ADD: Additional thought -- if Hamlin effectively serves Lincoln's second term, does he seek to be re-elected in his own right in 1868?
 
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Other ways for Hamlin to become President around this time -- Lincoln dies at Fort Stevens; alternatively, Lincoln is assassinated earlier, most intriguingly after the RNC, or even the election, but before the Electoral College.

EDIT ADD: Additional thought -- if Hamlin effectively serves Lincoln's second term, does he seek to be re-elected in his own right in 1868?

Possibly, but more likely the GOP would still prefer Grant, who was after all the nation's number one hero.
 
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