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Schuyler Colfax (født 23. marts 1823, død 13. januar 1885) var den 17. vicepræsident i USA. Han gjorde tjeneste i den første af de to perioder til præsident Ulysses S. Grant , og stillede også til valg for den anden periode.
Schuyler Colfax. Schuyler Colfax was born in New York City in 1823; he and his family moved to Indiana in 1836. Colfax was elected one of Indiana’s members of the US House of Representatives in 1855, serving as Speaker of the House from 1863 to the end of his tenure in 1869. In 1868, he ran as the Radical Republican candidate for Vice ...
Schuyler Colfax was born on 23 March 1823 in New York City, five months after his father’s premature death from tuberculosis. Schuyler attended the common schools and clerked in a retail store until his mother, Hannah (Stryker) Colfax, remarried in 1834. Two years later, Schuyler’s stepfather, George Matthews, moved the family to Indiana.
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 ...
Colfax Avenue was named after Schuyler Colfax [also called "Smiler"], who lived from 1823 until 1875. An Indiana politician who began his public career as a newspaperman, first as a legislative correspondent for the Indiana State Journal, then as publisher of the St. Joseph Valley Register in South Bend, he was elected as a Congressman from Indiana in 1854 (Republican, 1855-69) and from 1863 ...
She passed away childless in 1863. Colfax was then only 40, and in 1868, two weeks after he was elected to the Vice Presidency he married Ella M. Wade. They had one son, Schuyler Colfax III, born in 1870. After leaving office in 1873, Colfax was only 50 years old. He began a successful career as a lecturer, all over the country.
Schuyler Colfax. 17º Vicepresidente de Estados Unidos; 4 de marzo de 1869 - 4 de marzo de 1873; Presidente: Ulysses S. Grant: Predecesor: Andrew Johnson: Sucesor ...
