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 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); 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
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography;
Hollister, Ovando. Life of Schuyler Colfax. New York: Funk and Wagnalls,
1886; Smith, Willard. Schuyler Colfax: The Changing Fortunes of a Political
Idol. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1952.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Bibliography
DAB; House, Albert V., Jr. “Contributions of Samuel J. Randall to
the Rules of the National House of Representatives.” American Political
Science Review 29 (October 1935): 837-41; House, Albert V. “The Political
Career of Samuel Jackson Randall.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Wisconsin, 1935.
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