biography
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| lived:
| (1809–91)
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| biography:
| US statesman and vice-president (1861–5), born in Paris Hill, Maine, USA. He practised law (1833–48), was speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, and was returned to Congress in 1842 and 1844. He sat in the US Senate as a Democrat (1848–57), but separated from his Party over his anti-slavery opinions, and was elected Republican Governor of Maine. He returned to the Senate in 1857, and in 1861 became vice-president under Lincoln. After a further period in the Senate (1869–81), he served as minister to Spain (1881–2). |
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