#hannibal hamlin

[jerry-hornes-foot]

Frederick Chilton is just gay Howard Hamlin

#hannibal #better call saul #frederick chilton #howard hamlin

[fictionadventurer]

The Springfield pictures on my phone are coming in handy as I go through the Lincoln book.

Wax figures of Lincoln's Cabinet from the Lincoln Museum

Banner from the 1860 Election in the historic Springfield Capitol building.

Sign from Lincoln's Law Office.

Historic Springfield Capitol building

#history is awesome #presidential talk #part of the reason i'm pausing the podcast to dig further into lincoln #is because i intended to look deeper into lincoln after this trip and never did #it's fun going back through the pictures with more context #though it would have been even more fun to have that context when i was there #the main reason i included that banner picture is because i got a nice surprise #when i saw hannibal hamlin's name and realized 'oh now i know that guy!' #it's fun to learn about history of a place you've actually been to #nice to be able picture lincoln's house and the state legislature whenever they mention them #though it is a struggle to roll back my imagination and remember the city doesn't look like the one i saw #pretty sure there was no museum across the street from lincoln's house #lincoln didn't have car traffic outside his office #lincoln probably did not go to the krispy kreme #which makes me very sad because that was one of the most profound culinary experiences of my life #(new item for the time travel bucket list: take lincoln to the krispy kreme) #there are other cool and useful pictures i wanted to show but unfortunately i had to avoid the ones with people in them #there's a great shot of the front of lincoln's office but my sister is standing right in front of it #and most of the useful lincoln's house photos have other tourists there #suddenly i'm worried that i wasn't supposed to take pictures inside the lincoln museum #if any angry museum workers see this i'm sorry #i only had an hour which meant we were sprinting through that place and i needed to be able to look closer later

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

I think the most fun part to me with writing Hannibal fanfics is seeing how far I can run with the dialogue I make Will and Hannibal use. Because I feel like there's a scale of how to write them that also very much falls in line with how they are in the show.

There's Hannibal-esque writers. They know seem to know a lot about music, art, food, and/or mythology from lots of different places and communities. They're cultured and well-informed or at the very least, they've done a lot of research into these things.

And then there's Will-esque writers. Those that aren't necessarily well-educated on all those subjects, but they're smart enough and cognizant enough of the various subjects to be able to snap back with some metaphor of their own.

And these are both good types of Hannibal fic writers don't get me wrong, but I do very much enjoy being a Will Writer. I don't know a lot about music or dancing or art, and by God I try to avoid describing whatever meals Hannibal might be making at risk of sounding like an idiot, but I'm a history major and published poet. I can work with that.

I can be pretentious and flowery and philosophical with my words, and hey, maybe throw in some metaphor about:

Well, Hannibal is so headstrong because he's following his namesake. Hannibals are supposed to be leaders, like Hannibal, the Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War, or Hannibal Hamlin, the fifteenth vice president of the United States (and a revolutionary one at that as the first Republican vice president).

But then have a clap back of, well, General Hannibal of Carthage may have been one of the greatest military tacticians in known history, but he did lose the Second Punic War (like Hannibal Lecter lost Will to justice in the Second season), was exiled many times over (except Hannibal Lecter ran to Italy rather than being pushed from it and its surrounding territories), and then ended up killing himself after being betrayed (much like Hannibal Lecter gave up his life (hyperbolically) to the BSHCI after Will betrayed him and his feelings).

And of course Hannibal Hamlin wasn't all that bad either, until Abraham Lincoln decided he needed to appeal more to those that opposed him, and he dropped Hamlin and picked up Andrew Johnson because that seemed like the best thing to do (kind of like how Will dropped Hannibal Lecter in Digestivo only to pick up a shiny little family for himself, because it was what he was supposed to want and do).

And in the end I'll spin it all with "Is that all your namesake is, Hannibal? A crutch of greatness keeping you from falling directly into abandonment's gaping maw? One could wonder why you try to avoid your sorrows when the legacy of your name scrambles the letters until all they spell is rejection."

But uh yeah that explanation really got out of hand and I just meant to say that I love writing Hannibal dialogue even if I don't have all the culture knowledge that Hannibal characters seem to have. It's fun.

#jesus christ that got away from me #but whatever #hannibal #hannibal fic #my writing #dot says

[deadpresidents]

2 and a half weeks until JC passes Cactus Jack!

It took me a little bit to figure out what you were referencing, but yes, Jimmy Carter will pass John Nance Garner as the longest-living President or Vice President in American history on September 18th. And if he is still with us on October 1st, Carter will be the first President or Vice President in American history to celebrate their 99th birthday.

And since I'm a huge dork who finds this stuff interesting, here's the big, complete list of longest-living to shortest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents in American history: (Presidents are in bold text, Vice Presidents are in italics, and those who served as both POTUS and VP are in bold italics.) John Nance Garner: 98 years, 351 days Jimmy Carter: 98 years, 337 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Levi P. Morton: 96 years, 0 days George H.W. Bush: 94 years, 171 days Gerald R. Ford: 93 years, 165 days Ronald Reagan: 93 years, 120 days Walter Mondale: 93 years, 81 days John Adams: 90 years, 247 days Herbert Hoover: 90 years, 71 days Harry S. Truman: 88 years, 232 days Charles G. Dawes: 85 years, 239 days James Madison: 85 years, 104 days Thomas Jefferson: 83 years, 82 days Dick Cheney: 82 years, 216 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Hannibal Hamlin: 81 years, 311 days Richard Nixon: 81 years, 104 days Joe Biden: 80 years, 287 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) John Quincy Adams: 80 years, 227 days Aaron Burr: 80 years, 220 days Martin Van Buren: 79 years, 231 days Adlai E. Stevenson: 78 years, 234 days Dwight D. Eisenhower: 78 years, 165 days Alben W. Barkley: 78 years, 157 days Andrew Jackson: 78 years, 85 days Spiro Agnew: 77 years, 261 days Donald Trump: 77 years, 81 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) George W. Bush: 77 years, 59 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry A. Wallace: 77 years, 42 days James Buchanan: 77 years, 39 days Bill Clinton: 77 years, 15 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Dan Quayle: 76 years, 211 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Charles Curtis: 76 years, 14 days Al Gore: 75 years, 156 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Millard Fillmore: 74 years, 60 days James Monroe: 73 years, 67 days George Clinton: 72 years, 268 days George M. Dallas: 72 years, 174 days William Howard Taft: 72 years, 174 days John Tyler: 71 years, 295 days Grover Cleveland: 71 years, 98 days Thomas R. Marshall: 71 years, 79 days Nelson Rockefeller: 70 years, 202 days Elbridge Gerry: 70 years, 129 days Rutherford B. Hayes: 70 years, 105 days Richard M. Johnson: 70 years, 33 days William Henry Harrison: 68 years, 54 days John C. Calhoun: 68 years, 13 days William A. Wheeler: 67 years, 339 days George Washington: 67 years, 295 days Benjamin Harrison: 67 years, 205 days Woodrow Wilson: 67 years, 36 days William R. King: 67 years, 11 days Hubert H. Humphrey: 66 years, 231 days Andrew Johnson: 66 years, 214 days Thomas A. Hendricks: 66 years, 79 days Charles W. Fairbanks: 66 years, 24 days Zachary Taylor: 65 years, 227 days Franklin Pierce: 64 years, 319 days Lyndon B. Johnson: 64 years, 148 days Mike Pence: 64 years, 88 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry Wilson: 63 years, 279 days Ulysses S. Grant: 63 years, 87 days Franklin D. Roosevelt: 63 years, 72 days Barack Obama: 62 years, 30 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Schuyler Colfax: 61 years, 296 days Calvin Coolidge: 60 years, 185 days Theodore Roosevelt: 60 years, 71 days Kamala Harris: 58 years, 318 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days Chester A. Arthur: 57 years, 44 days James S. Sherman: 57 years, 6 days Abraham Lincoln: 56 years, 62 days Garret A. Hobart: 55 years, 171 days John C. Breckinridge: 54 years, 116 days James K. Polk: 53 years, 225 days Daniel D. Tompkins: 50 years, 355 days James Garfield: 49 years, 304 days John F. Kennedy: 46 years, 177 days

#History #Presidents #Vice Presidents #Longest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents #Presidential Data #Presidential Statistics #Presidential Facts #POTUS #VP #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #John Nance Garner #Vice President Garner

[strictlyfavorites]

(From Left to Right) Outgoing Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Incoming Vice President Andrew Johnson, and President Abraham Lincoln seated next to each other during Lincoln’s second inauguration, 1865

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Clay Jones]

* * * *

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 30, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAR 31, 2024

On Tuesday morning, on his social media outlet, former president Trump encouraged his supporters to buy a “God Bless The USA” Bible for $59.99. The Bible is my “favorite book,” he said in a promotional video, and said he owns “many.” This Bible includes the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance. It also includes the chorus of country music singer Lee Greenwood’s song “God Bless the USA,” likely because it is a retread of a 2021 Bible Greenwood pushed to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of 9-11.

That story meant less coverage for the news from last Monday, March 25, in which Trump shared on his social media platform a message comparing him to Jesus Christ, with a reference to Psalm 109, which calls on God to destroy one’s enemies.  

This jumped out to me because Trump is not the first president to compare himself to Jesus Christ. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson famously did, too. While there is a financial component to Trump’s comparison that was not there for Johnson, the two presidents had similar political reasons for claiming a link to divine power.

Johnson was born into poverty in North Carolina, then became a tailor in Tennessee, where he rose through politics to the U.S. House of Representatives and then the Senate. In 1861, when Tennessee left the Union, Johnson was the only sitting senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the United States. This stand threw him into prominence. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln named him the military governor of Tennessee. 

Then, in 1864, the Republican Party renamed itself the Union Party to attract northern Democrats to its standard. To help that effort, party leaders chose a different vice president, replacing a staunch Republican—Hannibal Hamlin of Maine—with the Democrat Johnson.

Although he was elected on what was essentially a Republican ticket, Johnson was a Democrat at heart. He loathed the elite southern enslavers he thought had become oligarchs in the years before the Civil War, shutting out poorer men like him from prosperity, but he was a fervent racist who enslaved people himself until 1863. Johnson opposed the new active government the Republicans had built during the war, and he certainly didn’t want it to enforce racial equality. He expected that the end of the war would mean a return to the United States of 1860, minus the system of enslavement that concentrated wealth upward. 

Johnson was badly out of step with the Republicans, but a quirk of timing gave him exclusive control of the reconstruction of the United States from April 15, 1865, when he took the oath of office less than three hours after Lincoln breathed his last, until early December. Congress had adjourned for the summer on March 4, expecting that Lincoln would call the members back together if there were an emergency, as he had in summer 1861. It was not due to reconvene until early December. Members of Congress rushed back to Washington, D.C., after Lincoln’s assassination, but Johnson insisted on acting alone.

Over the course of summer 1865, Johnson set out to resuscitate the prewar system dominated by the Democratic Party, with himself at its head. He pardoned all but about 1,500 former Confederates, either by proclamation or by presidential pardon, putting them back into power in southern society. He did not object when southern state legislatures developed a series of state laws, called Black Codes, remanding Black Americans into subservience.

When Congress returned to work on December 4, 1865, Johnson greeted the members with the happy news that he had “restored” the Union. Leaving soldiers in the South would have cost tax money, he said, and would have “envenomed hatred” among southerners. His exclusion of Black southerners from his calculus, although they were the most firmly loyal population in the South, showed how determined he was to restore prewar white supremacy, made possible by keeping power in the states. All Republican congressmen had to do, he said, was to swear in the southern senators and representatives now back in Washington, D.C., and the country would be “restored.”

Republicans wanted no part of his “restoration.” Not only did it return to power the same men who had been shooting at Republicans’ constituents eight months before and push northerners’ Black fellow soldiers to a form of quasi-enslavement, but also the 1870 census would count Black Americans as whole people rather than three fifths of a person, giving former Confederates more national political power after the war than they had had before it. Victory on the battlefields would be overturned by control of Congress.

Congressional Republicans rejected Johnson’s plan for reconstruction. Instead, they passed the Fourteenth Amendment  in June 1866 and required the former Confederate states to ratify it before they could be readmitted to the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment put the strength of the national government behind the idea that Black Americans would be considered citizens—as the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision had denied. Then it declared that states could neither discriminate against citizens nor take away a citizen’s rights without due process of the law. To make sure that the 1870 census would not increase the power of former Confederates, it declared that if any state kept men over 21 from voting, its representation in Congress would be reduced proportionally. 

Johnson hated the Fourteenth Amendment. He hated its broad definition of citizenship; he hated its move toward racial equality; he hated its undermining of the southern leaders he backed; he hated its assertion of national power; he hated that it offered a moderate route to reunification that most Americans would support. If states ratified it, he wouldn’t be able to rebuild the Democratic Party with himself at its head. 

So he told southern politicians to ignore Congress’s order to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, calling Congress an illegal body because it had not seated representatives from the southern states. He promised white southerners that the Democrats would win the 1866 midterm elections. Once back in power, he said, Democrats would repudiate the Republicans’ “radicalism” and put his plan back into place. 

As he asserted his vision for the country, Johnson egged on white supremacist violence. In July, white mobs attacked a Unionist convention in New Orleans where delegates had called for taking the vote away from ex-Confederates and giving it to loyal Black men. The rioters killed 37 Black people and 3 white delegates to the convention. 

By then, Johnson had become as unpopular as his policies. Increasingly isolated, he defended his plan for the nation as the only true course. In late August he broke tradition to campaign in person, an act at the time considered beneath the dignity of a president. He set off on a railroad tour, known as the “Swing Around the Circle,” to whip up support for the Democrats before the election. 

Speaking from the same set of notes as the train stopped at different towns and cities from Washington, D.C., to New York, to Chicago, to St. Louis, and back to Washington, D.C., Johnson complained bitterly about the opposition to his reconstruction policies, attacked specific members of Congress as traitors and called for them to be hanged, and described himself as a martyr like Lincoln. And, noting the mercy of his reconstruction policies, he compared himself to Jesus.  

It was all too much for voters. The white supremacist violence across the South horrified them, returning power to southern whites infuriated them, the reduction of Black soldiers to quasi-slaves enraged them, and Johnson’s attacks on Congress alarmed them. Johnson seemed determined to hand the country over to its former enemies to recreate the antebellum world that northerners had just poured more than 350,000 lives and $5 billion into destroying, no matter what voters wanted. 

Johnson’s extremism and his supporters’ violence created a backlash. Northerners were not willing to hand the country back to the Democrats who were rioting in the South and to a president who compared himself to Jesus. Rather than turning against the Republicans in the 1866 elections, voters repudiated Johnson. They gave Republicans a two-thirds majority of Congress, enabling them to override any policy Johnson proposed.

And, in 1868, the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, launching a new era in the history of the United States.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#history #Andrew Johnson #Civil War #political #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #Fourteenth Amendment

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to Hannibal Hamlin, the only vice president of the united states who was also a cannibal… …that we know of

#happybirthday #hannibal #vice president #hannibal the cannibal

[joeybarnacles]

During his first term Abraham Lincoln's vice president was named Hannibal Hamlin in a timeline extremely close to this one we didn't have president Andrew Johnson we had president Hannibal fucking Hamlin

#history #us history

[writing-is-my-one-true-passion]

Falloutober 2022 Prompt 9: Dear Hearts

The people of Megaton were kind, for the most part. They were the sort of people that believed in “Live and let live.” The vault hadn’t been like that. Everything was strict rules and expectations for the future. Rivet City wasn’t too bad. People were a lot grumpier, and worked a little harder, but were still good people, for the most part.

That “for the most part” is what always got Maria. She always wondered how someone could grow up and live in a wasteland for all their lives and still be mostly good. Maybe it was just that control and power corrupts, like it did with the Overseer. Because these people had no power over what happened in their lives, and very little chance to gain power and control over other’s lives.

But even so, Maria found herself in situations where she gained control, or could gain control, of other people. The Mechanist and Ant Agonizer, Bryan Wilks, Hannibal Hamlin and other escaped slaves, even all of Megaton from the stupid bomb at the center. But Maria felt that the people she ended up saving and protecting were the people that deserved to be saved, the ones with good hearts, and kind souls.

And no matter how many times she was offered a better reward for doing the wrong things, she could never bring herself to do them. She always did what seemed like the best course of action for the best result. Which is why she stood here among the fallen ghouls in Tenpenny Tower.

Roy Phillips had wanted to be allowed access into the Tower, he had told Maria that she could get the residents to accept them, he had played her open bleeding heart like a game and got what he wanted. He killed all those people, and though Maria didn’t really like them, they still hadn’t done anything wrong. But once she found out that Roy had everyone killed, she went in and wiped out the ghouls herself. She was the reason all those people died, and she was the reason all those ghouls died.

Some people did bad things for the right reasons, others did bad things for the wrong reasons, but sometimes true motives hid from you, and you end up doing bad things, when all you want is for everyone to get along.

#falloutober2022 #fallout 3 #lone wanderer #fanfiction #mine

[wanderingmind867]

My US Voting Record:

I made this with the help of wikipedia, google and posts like voting guides which I found online.

Note: I would have been a Monarchist during the Revolutionary War, but I'd probably still vote if living in America (No matter how displeased the revolution made me, I'd probably still always be willing to vote). But to show my dissatisfaction, every vote until 1824 is a protest vote:

1788: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1792: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1796: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1800: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1804: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1808: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1812: Protest Vote for King George III (I can't vote for anyone after the War of 1812 got started)

1816: Protest Vote for King George III (again, I don't know if I'd be able to forgive anyone after the War of 1812)

1820: Protest Vote for King George IV (I can't support Monroe after he helped fight 1812 against Canada and the British).

1824: Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford

1824 Contingent: John Quincy Adams

1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush

1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant

1836: Daniel Webster/Francis Granger or William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger

1840: William Henry Harrison/John Tyler

1844: Henry Clay/Theodore Frelinghuysen

1848: Martin Van Buren/Charles F. Adams

1852: John P. Hale/George W. Julian

1856: John C. Frémont/William L. Dayton

1860: Abraham Lincoln/Hannibal Hamlin

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson

1868: Ulysses S. Grant/Schuyler Colfax

1872: Horace Greeley/Benjamin Gratz Brown

1876: Samuel Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks

1880: James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur

1884: Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks

1888: Benjamin Harrison/Levi P. Morton

1892: James B. Weaver/James G. Field

1896: William Jennings Bryan/Thomas E. Watson

1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai Stevenson I

1904: Eugene V. Debs/Benjamin Hanford

1908: William Jennings Bryan/John Kern

1912: Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel

1916: Allan L. Benson/George R. Kirkpatrick

1920: Eugene V. Debs/Seymour Stedman

1924: Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler

1928: Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson (although Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis aren't bad either. I might've been a prohibitionist then, considering I hate the taste of alcohol. But Smith opposed lynching. So he gets my vote).

1932: Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer

1936: Norman Thomas/George A. Nelson

1940: Norman Thomas/Maynard Krueger

1944: Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes

1948: Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor

1952: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman

1956: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver

1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Solely because I hate JFK)

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey

1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie

1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (although I still really like Thomas Eagleton as VP)

1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole

1980: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale

1984: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro

1988: Willa Kenoyer/Ron Ehrenreich (I hear Michael Dukakis went to high school with the guy who founded the Judge Rotenberg Centre, which is a terrible place. So I can't vote for Dukakis. Can't take a chance on him with that history).

1992: Ross Perot/James Stockdale

1996: Ross Perot/Pat Choate

2000: Ralph Nader/Winona Laduke

2004: Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo

2008: Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez

2012: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Beginning in 2012, I'd probably start voting for Democrats more often because I felt I had no choice. But I'm still a bit unhappy with them. Haven't been since 1988 or 1992).

2016: Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear

2020: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (My heart says Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, however).

#us politics #politics #my voting record #If I was american or alive then #my random thoughts #autism #asd #autistic #adhd #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #audhd #random thoughts #my thoughts #ramblings

[jamescrawleymaximusmeridius]

Antonia Ling Meets Hannibal Hamlin For The First Time

#youtube

[lavenderlace16]

So I just had my second day of my American Studies class, and we were learning about Reconstruction after the civil war. My teacher was talking about how Abraham Lincoln changed his vice president from Hannibal Hamlin to Andrew Johnson for his second term, and he said, AND I QUOTE:

“As bad a President as Andrew Johnson was, Hannibal Hamlin would’ve probably been worse. ‘Don’t agree with me, I’ll eat your spleen!’”

My 50+ year old History teacher just made a Hannibal reference on the SECOND DAY OF CLASS.

And he did a little hop while making it too.

This is going to be a great class.

#And the fact that I was the only one who laughed at it too #I got so many weird looks #My teacher was like good taste in shows 👍 #We stan a king #hannibal #hannibal tv show

[reddancer1]

Heather Cox Richardson

March 14, 2023 (Tuesday)

Two years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, I whipped off a quick and somewhat flippant letter about why March 15 is a crucially important day in American history. It became one of the most popular things I’ve ever written, so popular that when I was asked to write a book based on these letters, I centered the book around it.

And then, as books have a way of doing, the project changed and this material dropped away. The only piece of the letter that made it into the final version of the book was Owen Lovejoy’s vow never to forget his brother Elijah’s murder at the hands of a proslavery mob.It’s a shame because there is much of our history and our present, as well as of me, in this story, and so I am taking a relatively quiet night on this date in 2023 to retell it

.But now there is more to add. 

Exactly three and a half years ago tomorrow, on September 15, 2019, I began to write these Letters from an American. At the time, I was simply answering the questions people on my Facebook page had asked me about the emerging scandal of Trump withholding congressionally approved funds from Ukraine; I had no idea that we were beginning an epic journey together.

It turns out to be a journey deeply rooted in this country’s history, and I often cannot wrap my head around the fact we are quietly making our own history, just as our predecessors did. It is a curious thing to be a historian in this moment: we live in both the past and the present, and I promise you we worry about the future. Above all, though, I am constantly thankful to be on this journey with so many wonderful people who are organizing, as Lincoln’s Republicans did, to change the course of the nation.

Anyway, a little backstory about the flippant tale I told two years ago: the man who taught me to use a chainsaw is real—together we cleared a field gone to alders in summer 1978. An adze is a woodcutting tool. And Hannibal Hamlin is one of the few topics my now-husband and I could find to talk about on our tongue-tied first date.  

So, two years ago, I wrote:

By the time most of you will read this it will be March 15, which is too important a day to ignore. As the man who taught me to use a chainsaw said, it is immortalized by Shakespeare’s famous warning: “Cedar! Beware the adze of March!”

He put it that way because the importance of March 15 is, of course, that it is the day in 1820 that Maine, the Pine Tree State, joined the Union.

Maine statehood had national repercussions. The inhabitants of this northern part of Massachusetts had asked for statehood in 1819, but their petition was stopped dead by southerners who refused to permit a free state—one that did not permit enslavement—to enter the Union without a corresponding “slave state.” The explosive growth of the northern states had already given free states control of the House of Representatives, but the South held its own in the Senate, where each state got two votes. The admission of Maine would give the North the advantage, and southerners insisted that Maine’s admission be balanced with the admission of a southern slave state lest those opposed to slavery use their power in the federal government to restrict enslavement in the South.

They demanded the admission of Missouri to counteract Maine’s two “free” Senate votes.But this “Missouri Compromise” infuriated northerners, especially those who lived in Maine. They swamped Congress with petitions against admitting Missouri as a slave state, resenting that enslavers in the Senate could hold the state of Maine hostage until they got their way.

Tempers rose high enough that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Massachusetts—and later Maine—Senator John Holmes that he had for a long time been content with the direction of the country, but that the Missouri question “like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.”

Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, but Jefferson was right to see it as nothing more than a reprieve.

The petition drive that had begun as an effort to keep the admission of Maine from being tied to the admission of Missouri continued as a movement to get Congress to whittle away at enslavement where it could—by, for example, outlawing the sale of enslaved Americans in the nation’s capital—and would become a key point of friction between the North and the South.

There was also another powerful way in which the conditions of the state’s entry into the Union would affect American history. Mainers were angry that their statehood had been tied to the demands of far distant enslavers, and that anger worked its way into the state’s popular culture. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 meant that Maine men, who grew up steeped in that anger, could spread west.And so they did.

In 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy, who had moved to Alton, Illinois, from Albion, Maine, to begin a newspaper dedicated to the abolition of human enslavement, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob, who threw his printing press into the Mississippi River.

Elijah Lovejoy’s younger brother, Owen, had also moved west from Maine. Owen saw Elijah shot and swore his allegiance to the cause of abolition. "I shall never forsake the cause that has been sprinkled with my brother's blood," he declared. He turned to politics, and in 1854 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature. His increasing prominence brought him political friends, including an up-and-coming lawyer who had arrived in Illinois from Kentucky by way of Indiana, Abraham Lincoln.

Lovejoy and Lincoln were also friends with another Maine man gone to Illinois. Elihu Washburne had been born in Livermore, Maine, in 1816, when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. He was one of seven brothers, and one by one, his brothers had all left home, most of them to move west. Israel Washburn, Jr., the oldest, stayed in Maine, but Cadwallader moved to Wisconsin, and William Drew would follow, going to Minnesota. (Elihu was the only brother who spelled his last name with an e).

Israel and Elihu were both serving in Congress in 1854 when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturning the Missouri Compromise and permitting the spread of slavery to the West. Furious, Israel called a meeting of 30 congressmen in May to figure out how they could come together to stand against the Slave Power that had commandeered the government to spread the South’s system of human enslavement. They met in the rooms of Representative Edward Dickinson, of Massachusetts—whose talented daughter Emily was already writing poems—and while they came to the meeting from all different political parties, they left with one sole principle: to stop the Slave Power that was turning the government into an oligarchy.

The men scattered for the summer back to their homes across the North, sharing their conviction that a new party must rise to stand against the Slave Power. In the fall, those calling themselves “anti-Nebraska” candidates were sweeping into office—Cadwallader Washburn would be elected from Wisconsin in 1854 and Owen Lovejoy from Illinois in 1856—and they would, indeed, create a new political party: the Republicans. The new party took deep root in Maine, flipping the state from Democratic to Republican in 1856, the first time it fielded a presidential candidate.

In 1859, Abraham Lincoln would articulate an ideology for the party, defining it as the party of ordinary Americans standing together against the oligarchs of slavery, and when he ran for president in 1860, he knew it was imperative that he get the momentum of Maine men on his side. In those days Maine voted for state and local offices in September, rather than November, so a party’s win in Maine could start a wave. “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” the saying went.

So Lincoln turned to Hannibal Hamlin, who represented Maine in the Senate (and whose father had built the house in which the Washburns grew up). Lincoln won 62% of the vote in Maine in 1860, taking all 8 of the state’s electoral votes, and went on to win the election. When he arrived in Washington quietly in late February to take office the following March, Elihu Washburne was at the railroad station to greet him.

I was not a great student in college. I liked learning, but not on someone else’s timetable. It was this story that woke me up and made me a scholar. I found it fascinating that a group of ordinary people from country towns who shared a fear that they were losing their democracy could figure out how to work together to reclaim it.

Happy Birthday, Maine.

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The South has always been the source of awfulness to our nation, right from the very beginning!!!   The Second Amendment and the Electoral College were “gives” that the North gave to South to entice them to join them in revolution against the British Crown.  And it bites us in the ass still!!

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Who are the youngest and oldest vice presidents

At the time of their Inauguration? Here's the list of the Vice Presidents' Age at Inauguration, from youngest-to-oldest:

AGE AT INAUGURATION: NAME OF VP [Administration] 36 years, 42 days: John C. Breckinridge [Buchanan] 40 years, 11 days: Richard Nixon [Eisenhower] 41 years, 353 days: Dan Quayle [G.H.W. Bush] 42 years, 128 days: Theodore Roosevelt [McKinley's 2nd VP] 42 years, 256 days: Daniel D. Tompkins [Monroe] 42 years, 352 days: John C. Calhoun [J.Q. Adams/Jackson's 1st VP] 44 years, 232 days: Al Gore [Clinton] 45 years, 26 days: Aaron Burr [Jefferson's 1st VP] 45 years, 346 days: Schuyler Colfax [Grant's 1st VP] 48 years, 243 days: Calvin Coolidge [Harding] 49 years, 15 days: Walter Mondale [Carter] 49 years, 56 days: Millard Fillmore [Taylor] 50 years, 72 days: Spiro Agnew [Nixon's 1st VP] 50 years, 98 days: Martin Van Buren [Jackson's 2nd VP] 50 years, 340 days: John Tyler [W.H. Harrison] 51 years, 150 days: Chester A. Arthur [Garfield] 51 years, 189 days: Hannibal Hamlin [Lincoln's 1st VP] 52 years, 105 days: Henry A. Wallace [FDR's 2nd VP] 52 years, 146 days: Lyndon B. Johnson [JFK] 52 years, 237 days: George M. Dallas [Polk] 52 years, 274 days: Garret A. Hobart [McKinley's 1st VP] 52 years, 297 days: Charles W. Fairbanks [T. Roosevelt] 53 years, 131 days: James S. Sherman [Taft] 53 years, 174 days: John Adams [Washington] 53 years, 238 days: Hubert H. Humphrey [LBJ] 53 years, 325 days: Thomas Jefferson [J. Adams] 56 years, 65 days: Andrew Johnson [Lincoln's 2nd VP] 56 years, 92 days: Kamala Harris [Biden] 56 years, 138 days: Richard M. Johnson [Van Buren] 56 years, 223 days: George H.W. Bush [Reagan] 57 years, 132 days: Adlai E. Stevenson [Cleveland's 2nd VP] 57 years, 227 days: Mike Pence [Trump] 57 years, 247 days: William A. Wheeler [Hayes] 58 years, 355 days: Thomas R. Marshall [Wilson] 59 years, 189 days: Charles G. Dawes [Coolidge] 59 years, 335 days: Dick Cheney [G.W. Bush] 60 years, 145 days: Gerald Ford [Nixon's 2nd VP] 60 years, 257 days: Harry S. Truman [FDR's 3rd VP] 61 years, 16 days: Henry Wilson [Grant's 2nd VP] 64 years, 102 days: John Nance Garner {FDR's 1st VP] 64 years, 292 days: Levi P. Morton [B. Harrison] 65 years, 178 days: Thomas A. Hendricks [Cleveland's 1st VP] 65 years, 221 days: George Clinton [Jefferson's 2nd/Madison's 1st] 66 years, 61 days: Joe Biden [Obama] 66 years, 165 days: Nelson Rockefeller [Ford] 66 years, 331 days: William R.D. King [Pierce] 68 years, 230 days: Elbridge Gerry [Madison's 2nd VP] 69 years, 38 days: Charles Curtis [Hoover] 71 years, 57 days: Alben W. Barkley [Truman]

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National Statuary Hall - Part 6 Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, & Missouri

National Statuary Hall – Part 6 Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, & Missouri

In the last part of this series, I looked at who represents the states of Louisiana, Maine, Maryland and Massachusetts in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Louisiana is represented by attorney, Governor & Senator Huey P. Long and by attorney and Supreme Court Justice Edward Douglass White; Maine by attorney and Vice-President of the United States, Hannibal Hamlin…

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Throughout history political badges have been used to show support for candidates during elections. These small pieces of memorabilia can be made from a variety of materials, including metals, cloth, and plastic. Some are quite rare and valuable, while others are more common. In this blog post, we will take a look at 10 different political pins and buttons from around the world. We will discuss the history behind each one and why they are significant. At Sienna Pacific we offer all kind of Custom Lapel Pins, as political pins or election pins, in Hard and Soft Enamel, Screen Printed, Photo Etched or Cloissoné.... We also manufacture and supply badge patches for the police, law enforcement, military or any kind of logo patch for companies and individuals. We do not sell nor commercialize any of the products listed below but we can always manufacture similar designs and even with antique finishing touch or sandblasted. 10 Political badges and their historic context George Washington's inaugural buttons at the Museum of American Revolution 1. 1789 George Washington's presidency inaugural buttons These buttons were made to inaugurate George Washington's presidency. They are made of copper and have the phrase "Long Live the President" and the initials GW. George Washington's 1789 campaign motto, "Long Live the President," may seem ironic at first glance. After all, this phrase typically references the monarchy in Europe, and the United States was just starting its journey as a democratic nation. However, a deeper dive into history reveals that the use of such a slogan was actually quite fitting for the time. The American Revolution had only just concluded, and much of Europe remained skeptical about the success of this new republic. Washington's campaign worked to reassure both American citizens and foreign rulers that democracy could prevail, and what better way to do so than to adapt traditional phrases of monarchic loyalty and apply them to the presidency? In essence, "Long Live the President" served as a proclamation of faith in the stability and longevity of America's experiment with self-government. (Source) A complete Post Medieval, copper alloy cufflink or cuff button representing George Washington (AD 1732-1799), probably dating from AD 1775 -1799. Each fastener is oval and depicts a incised slightly right forward facing bust of George Washington in tricorne hat (cocked hat as it was referred to in the 18th century) with ' G WASHINGTON' below. The rear of the fasteners is undecorated. Each fastener has an integral looped shank and are joined by an oval link.Dimensions of individual fastener: length: 15.16mm; width: 11.86mm; total weight: 2.55g. Source: The Portable Antiquities Scheme, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Campaign button for Abraham Lincoln, 1860. Portrait appears in tintype. Reverse side of button is a tintype of running mate Hannibal Hamlin. One of the earliest examples of photographic images on political buttons. Source: Mathew Benjamin Brady , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 2. 1860 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign political ferrotype or tintype badge In some places it is referred to as a badge but according to some other sources it is a medallion. However, it is considered one of the predecessors of the political pins and buttons. Front: Abraham Lincoln Back: Running mate Hannibal Hamlin In the 1860 Presidential election, political badges were a common way for voters to show their support for a particular candidate. One such badge, depicting Abraham Lincoln, was made using a ferrotype or tintype process. This process involved capturing a photographic image onto a thin sheet of iron or tin. Today, these badges serve as interesting historical artifacts, offering insight into the political climate of the time and the individuals who wore them proudly in support of their preferred candidate. (Source) William Jennings Bryan "No Cross of Gold No Crown of Thorns" Campaign Button. Source: Historical.ha

.com 3. 1896 "No Cross of Gold, no crown of thorns" political campaign pin Among the top historic political badges we have to mention this simple but powerful one. This pin refers to William Jennings Bryan's famous 1896 speech. The mass production of political pins starts this year, thanks to a new industrial production process patented by Whitehead & Hoag. The phrase "No cross of gold, no crown of thorns" was popularized by William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 presidential election. The cross and crown symbolized the conflict between the interests of those in the gold industry, represented by a gold cross, and farmers and laborers, represented by a crown of thorns. This conflict revolved around monetary policy and the use of either gold or silver as a form of currency. Bryan, who supported the use of silver to improve economic conditions for farmers and laborers, famously proclaimed at the Democratic National Convention that he did not want a "cross of gold" imposed upon them. In other words, he did not want the power and interests of the wealthy gold industry to continue dominating over those in farming and labor industries. Ultimately, Bryan lost the election to William McKinley but his famous phrase remains an iconic rallying cry for economic equality. (Source) McKinley-Theodore Roosevelt Campaign and Inaugural Items, ca. 1900-1901 Source: Cornell University Library Public Domain 4. 1904 Theodore Roosevelt Campaign Buttons These political badges were used during Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign. The 1904 presidential election saw Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican incumbent, running for his second term in office. Building on his successful first term, Roosevelt campaigned on a platform of continued progress and expansion. He promised to maintain the strong economy and urge Congress to pass important legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act. His campaign also focused on expanding American influence abroad, advocating for a more assertive foreign policy and even suggesting the building of a Panama Canal. Roosevelt's campaign was ultimately successful, as he won by a landslide with over 60% of the popular vote. His decisive victory cemented him as a popular and influential president in American history. (Source) Campaign button from John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign. "There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image." Source: John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential campaign, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons John F. Kennedy presidential campaign button; Campaign buttons from the United States presidential election, 1960. Source: John F. Kennedy presidential campaign for 1960., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 5. 1960 JF Kennedy campaign political badges This button was used during John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. The 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy was marked by numerous challenges, including his relative youth and inexperience, his Roman Catholic faith, and allegations of financial misconduct. However, Kennedy was able to effectively use television as a medium to present himself as confident, articulate, and charismatic. His famous televised debates with opponent Richard Nixon showcased his quick thinking and ability to connect with the American people. Additionally, Kennedy's team utilized innovative campaign tactics such as featuring the handsome Kennedy family in advertisements and distributing buttons with Kennedy's catchy campaign slogan "Kennedy for President - The New Frontier." (Source) Image of the front of an aluminium and plastic Chairman Mao badge with inscription "梅花欢喜漫天雪" ("the plum blossom is happy and the sky is full of snow" -- a line from a poem written by Chairman Mao in 1962), inscribed "敬祝毛主席万岁无疆" on back, diameter 5.9 cm. Mass produced badge issued throughout during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1971) 6. 1966 to 1971 Chairman Mao Badges - Cultural revolution: These political badges were given out during the Chinese Cultu

ral Revolution. They feature a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong in several different designs. During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao badges were worn as a symbol of loyalty and devotion to communist leader Mao Zedong. These small pins featured the iconic portrait of Mao, often with phrases like "Long Live Chairman Mao" or "Serve the People." They were mandatory for all government officials and highly encouraged for citizens, with many wearing multiple badges at once to demonstrate their fervor. Even children as young as three or four years old wore them on their school uniforms. The badges reached peak popularity in the late 1960s, with an estimated nine billion produced during this time. Despite their initial widespread acceptance, the Cultural Revolution ultimately proved to be a destructive and tumultuous period in Chinese history, leading many to question the intense idolization of Mao symbolized by these ubiquitous badges. Today, they are often collected as historical artifacts from this turbulent era in Chinese history. (Source) Soviet Badges collected in Russia during 1990. Source: Jim Linwood Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) 7. Soviet Era Political Pins. URSS Pioneer pin with profile of Lenin. Property of the Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services, Harvard University: This pin belonged to a member of the Young Pioneer Organization, a communist youth group in the Soviet Union. It features a profile of Vladimir Lenin. The Soviet Union's political pins were a way for individuals to publicly display their allegiance to the state, as well as their commitment to specific political parties or figures. This particular pin features a profile of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party and first leader of the Soviet Union. Possessing and wearing such a pin would have been seen as a demonstration of loyalty to the ideals and policies of Lenin and the Communist Party. These pins were often worn on clothing or attached to bags and other personal items, serving both as identification and propaganda tool for the Communist state. It serves as a physical reminder of life under Soviet rule, where individual expression was heavily controlled and party loyalty was prized above all else. Today, these pins serve as historical artifacts, providing insight into life in the Soviet Union during its time in power. (Source) Peace movement protest badge, 'PEACE. PEACE PLEDGE UNION' button badge, white, red and green on black ground; lettering in white- "PEACE." above illustration of poppy plants with "PEACE PLEDGE UNION" below; white label on reverse- SUPPORT - NUCLEAR-FREE - NEW ZEALAND! - FOR INFO WRITE- - BOX 18541 - CH.CH. 9, NZ; pin fastening. Date: (1980s); 22 Apr 1999; eighties; 13 Apr 1999; Elizabeth II (1952 -)-House of Windsor-English reign. Source: Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1999.30.22 8. Hippie Patches, Punk Patches, biker Patches are another kind of political badges from the 60s and 70s: These patches were popular among hippies, punks, and bikers in the 1960s and 1970s. They featured a variety of designs, including peace symbols, skulls, and flowers. In the 1960s and 70s, many countercultural movements sought ways to express themselves and differentiate themselves from mainstream society. One form of self expression was through clothing, including wearing embroidered patches. Hippie patches often featured flowers, peace symbols, and messages advocating for love and unity. Punk patches frequently displayed anti-establishment themes and aggressive graphics. Biker patches were worn by motorcycle gangs as symbols of membership and rank within the group. These patches continue to be popular among individuals looking to reflect their personal values and interests through fashion choices. While some may dismiss them as mere accessories, these patches hold deep significance for those who choose to wear them. In a world where individualit

y can sometimes feel lost in conformity, wearing patches is one way for people to assert their unique identities. 9. 2008 "Yes We Can" Obama U.S. Presidential Election Campaign Buttons These buttons were used during Barack Obama's presidential campaign. They feature the slogan "Yes We Can." In 2008, Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" campaign slogan inspired millions of Americans to rally behind his presidential candidacy. The phrase tapped into the country's collective desire for change, rallying diverse communities to come together and strive for a better future. During the campaign, Obama utilized various media platforms such as social media, television ads, and public appearances to spread his message and connect with voters. Despite facing steep odds against a well-established political opponent, Obama ultimately won the election and became the first African American president in U.S. history. The "Yes We Can" campaign will forever be remembered as a defining moment in American politics and a symbol of hope for those who seek equal opportunities in this country. 10. Donald Trump 2016 Presidential Campaign Buttons These buttons were used during Donald Trump's presidential campaign. They feature the slogans "Make America Great Again" and "Trump 2016." The 2016 presidential election was filled with historic moments, and collectors have taken note. The Donald Trump campaign buttons from that year have become hot collectibles, with new listings popping up on eBay every day. These buttons feature the now-iconic slogans "Make America Great Again" and "Trump 2016." Whether you supported Trump's campaign or not, these buttons provide a glimpse into one of the most talked about elections in modern history. While they may be nostalgic reminders of a landmark election for some, others see political badges as evidence of different times in human history, and how big movements, revolutionary ideas and leaders made use of them as a way of encoraging loyalty among their followers and spread their messages. Whatever the case, these buttons stand as part of history and make a notable addition to any political memorabilia collection. The tradition of wearing or giving away patches to support political candidates continues in the 21st century. So, if you see a political pin or button that you like, make sure to pick it up! It might just be a valuable piece of history.