Leonidas Lent Hamline (pronounced as if it were ''Hamlin'') (1797 in

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– 1865) was an American

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and a lawyer. He is the eponym of

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in St. Paul, Minnesota, and of Hamline Avenue and Hamline United Methodist Church, also in St. Paul. Hamline studied for the ministry, but afterward studied law, and practiced for a while in

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. He became a preacher in the

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church in 1830. In 1844, when the Methodist church divided over

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, he was a member of the General Conference, the church's legislative body, and drew up the plan of separation. He provided US$25,000 of his own money to launch a school, which became

. A statue of the bishop, sculpted by Michael Price, Professor of Art, stands on campus. Hamline was the first editor of the long-running 19th century

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-based periodical, ''The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West''. A number of his sermons are given in the ''Works of L. L. Hamline, D. D.'', edited by Rev. F. G. Hibbard, D. D., (two volumes, 1869).

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* W. C. Palmer, ''Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D. D.'', (New York, 1866)

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