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See also: American See also: political See also: leader, See also: vice-president of the See also: United States from 1869 to 1873, was See also: born in New See also: York city on the 23rd of See also: March 1823
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His
See also: father died before the son's See also: birth, and his See also: mother subsequently married a Mr See also: Matthews
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The son attended the public See also: schools of New York until he was ten, and then became a clerk in his step-father's store, removing in 1836 with his mother and step-father to New See also: Carlisle, See also: Indiana
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In 1841 he removed to See also: South See also: Bend, where for eight years he was deputy auditor (his step-father being auditor) of St See also: Joseph county; in 1842–1844 he was assistant enrolling clerk of the See also: state senate and senate reporter for the Indiana State Journal
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In 1845 he established the St Joseph Valley See also: Register, which he published for eighteen years and made an influential Whig and later Republican journal
.
In 185o he was a member of the state constitutional See also: convention, and in 1854 took an active See also: part in organizing the " See also: Anti-See also: Nebraska men " (later called Republicans) of his state, and was by them sent to Congress
.
Here he served with distinction from 1855 until 1869, the last six years as See also: speaker of the See also: House
.
At the close of the See also: Civil War he was a leading member of the See also: radical wing of the Republican party, advocating the disfranchisement
of all who had been prominent in the service of the Confederacy, and declaring that " See also: loyalty must govern what loyalty has pre-served." In 1868 he had presidential aspirations, and was not without supporters
.
He accepted, however, the Republican nomination as vice-president on a ticket headed by General See also: Grant, and was elected; but he failed in 1872 to secure renomination
.
During the political
See also: campaign of 1872 he was accused, with other prominent politicians, of being implicated in corrupt transactions with the See also: Credit Mobilier, and a congressional investigation brought out the fact that he had agreed to take twenty shares from this concern, and had received dividends amounting to $1200
.
It also leaked out during the investigation that he had received in 1868, as a campaign contribution, a gift of $4000 from a contractor who had supplied the See also: government with envelopes while See also: Colfax was chairman of the See also: post office committee of the House
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At the close of his See also: term Colfax returned to private See also: life under a cloud, and during the See also: remainder of his lifetime earned a livelihood by delivering popular lectures
.
He died at See also: Mankato, See also: Minnesota, on the 13th of See also: January 1885
.
See J
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Hollister's Life of See also: Schuyler Colfax (New York, 1886)
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