Ellen Hamlin | |
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| Second Lady of the United States | |
| In role March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865 | |
| Vice President | Hannibal Hamlin |
| Preceded by | Mary Breckinridge |
| Succeeded by | Eliza Johnson |
| First Lady of Maine | |
| In office January 8, 1857 – February 25, 1857 | |
| Governor | Hannibal Hamlin |
| Preceded by | Ann Louisa Appleton |
| Succeeded by | Lucy W. Brooks |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ellen Vesta Emery (1835-09-14)September 14, 1835 Minot, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | February 1, 1925(1925-02-01) (aged 89) Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, including Hannibal |
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Ellen Vesta Hamlin (née Emery; September 14, 1835 – February 1, 1925) was the second wife of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, and served as 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.23 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.
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- Ross, George Edward; Novack, Barbara (January 1, 1975). 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. Hawkes Publishing Incorporated. ISBN 9780890360521 – via Google Books.
- "Fogler Library: Special Collections - Hamlin Family Papers". Library.umaine.edu. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2010. Raymond H. Fogler Library
- Sobel, Robert (1990). Biographical directory of the United ... Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313265938.