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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New York / USWilliam Almon WHEELER
(1819-1887)
WHEELER, William Almon, a
Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United
States; born in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., June 30, 1819;
completed preparatory studies; attended the Franklin Academy at
Malone and the University of Vermont at Burlington; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced in Malone, N.Y.; district
attorney for Franklin County, N.Y., 1846-1849; member, State
assembly 1850-1851; member, State senate 1858-1860; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3,
1863); delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1867 and
1868; elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for
reelection, having been nominated in 1876 as the Republican
candidate for Vice President; elected Vice President of the United
States on the Republican ticket with Rutherford Hayes in 1876;
inaugurated in March 1877 and served until March 1881; retired from
public life and active business pursuits because of ill health;
died in Malone, N.Y., June 4, 1887; interment in Morningside
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Otten, James T. “Grand Old Party Man: William A. Wheeler and
the Republican Party, 1850-1880.” Ph.D. diss., University of
South Carolina, 1976; Vazzano, Frank P. “Who Was William A.
Wheeler?” Hayes Historical Journal 9 (Summer 1990):
5-23.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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