THOMAS

See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

ANDREWS

See also:

• THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS (1819-1885)

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