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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / USSchuyler COLFAX
(1823-1885)
COLFAX, Schuyler, a
Representative from Indiana and a Vice President of the United
States; born in New York City March 23, 1823; attended the common
schools; in 1836 moved with his parents to New Carlisle, Ind.;
appointed deputy auditor of St. Joseph County 1841; became a
legislative correspondent for the Indiana State Journal; purchased
an interest in the South Bend Free Press and changed its name in
1845 to the St. Joseph Valley Register, the Whig organ of northern
Indiana; member of the State constitutional convention in 1850;
unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-second
Congress; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the
six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1869); chairman,
Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1868, having become the Republican nominee for Vice President;
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses); elected Vice President of
the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Gen. Ulysses
Grant in 1868, was inaugurated March 4, 1869, and served until
March 3, 1873; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872,
owing to charges of corruption in connection with the Credit
Mobilier of America scandal; lecturer; died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., January 13, 1885; interment in City Cemetery, South
Bend, Ind.
Bibliography
Smith, Willard Harvey. The Life and Times of Hon. Schuyler
Colfax. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1952.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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