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THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS (1819-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:ANDREWS See also:HENDRICKS (1819-1885)  , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States in 1885, was See also:born near See also:Zanesville, See also:Ohio, on the 7th of See also:September 1819 . He graduated at See also:Hanover See also:College, Hanover, See also:Indiana, in 1841, and began in 1843 a successful career at the See also:bar . Identifying himself with the Democratic party, he served in the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1848, and was a prominent member of the See also:convention for the revision of the state constitution in 1850-1851, a representative in See also:Congress (1851-1855), See also:commissioner of the United States See also:General See also:Land See also:Office (1855-18J9), a United States senator (1863-1869), and See also:governor of Indiana (1873-1877) . From 1868 until his See also:death he was put forward for nomination for the See also:presidency at every See also:national Democratic Convention See also:save in 1872 . Both in 1876 and 1884, after his failure to receive the nomination for the presidency, he was nominated by the Democratic National Convention for vice-president, his nomination in each of these conventions being made partly, it seems, with the See also:hope of gaining "greenback" votes—See also:Hendricks had opposed the immediate resumption of specie payments . In 1876, with S . J: See also:Tilden, he lost the disputed See also:election by the decision of the electoral See also:commission, but he was elected with Grover See also:Cleveland in 1884 . He died at See also:Indianapolis on the 25th of See also:November 1885 .

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