Ellen Hamlin Explained

Office:Second Lady of the United States
Vicepresident:Hannibal Hamlin
Term Start:March 4, 1861
Term End:March 4, 1865
Term Label:In role
Predecessor:Mary Breckinridge
Successor:Eliza Johnson
Birth Name:Ellen Vesta Emery
Birth Date:14 September 1835
Birth Place:Minot, Maine, U.S.
Death Place:Bangor, Maine, U.S.
Parents:
  • Stephen Albert Emery
  • Jennette Loring
Children:2

Ellen Vesta Hamlin (Emery; September 14, 1835  - February 1, 1925) was the second wife of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, and thus second lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.[1] They were married a year after the death of his first wife Sarah Jane Emery in 1855 who was also her half-sister. She had two children with Hannibal Hamlin: Hannibal Emery, who later became the attorney general of Maine, and Frank.[2] [3] Hamlin also had four children from his first marriage: George Hamlin, Charles Hamlin, Cyrus Hamlin, and Sarah Hamlin Batchelder. She died in 1925 as one of the longest-living second ladies in history.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Know Your Vice-presidents and Their Wives: Compact Biographies and Portraits of the Men who Have Held the Second-highest Office in the United States Government, and Their Wives, from John and Abigail Adams to Nelson A. and Margarette Rockefeller. George Edward. Ross. Barbara. Novack. 1 January 1975. Hawkes Publishing Incorporated. 9780890360521. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Fogler Library: Special Collections - Hamlin Family Papers . Library.umaine.edu . 2010-07-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120205201658/http://www.library.umaine.edu/SpecColl/FindingAids/Hamlinfamilyinventory.htm . 2012-02-05 . Raymond H. Fogler Library
  3. Book: Biographical directory of the United ... . 9780313265938 . Sobel . Robert . 1990 . Greenwood Press .