AND CIVIL WAR VICE-PRESIDENT WHO MIGHT HAVE CHANGED HISTORY This book presents the part Mr.Hamlin played during his entire political career of forty years pertaining to the issue of slavery until it was abolished in 1865. It also

continues with Mr. Hamlin's concern for the freedmen during the Reconstruction Era. The book

also discusses the decision that was made at the

Republican Convention in 1864 to nominate Andrew Johnson to be Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential

running mate in place of Mr. Hamlin. This change of Vice-Presidents would have far reaching ramifications nine months later when Lincoln is assassinated and Andrew Johnson becomes President. Finally the author speculates as to how different the course of Reconstruction would

have been had Hamlin become President instead of Johnson. Hannibal Hamlin is shown to have been a statesman of high character who was well thought of by his colleagues and his constituents, and deserves to receive greater recognition in American History than he has received in the past. Hopefully this book with help to rectify this oversight.