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WILLIAM ALMON WHEELER (1819-1887)
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Page 586
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See also: vice-president of the See also: United States from 1877 to 1881, was See also: born at See also: Malone, New See also: York, on the 3oth of See also: June 1819
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He studied at the university of See also: Vermont for two years (1833-1835), and in 1845 was admitted to the See also: bar
.
First as a Whig, and then, after 1856, as a Republican, he was prominent for many years in See also: state and See also: national politics
.
He was a member of the state See also: Assembly in 1849-185o, a member and president See also: pro tempore of the state Senate in 1858-1859, and a member of the national See also: House of Representatives in 1861-1863, and again from 1860 until 1877
.
He was the author of the so-called " Wheeler Compromise," by which the difficulties between contending See also: political factions in See also: Louisiana were adjusted in 1875
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Nominated for vice-president by the Republicans in 1876 on the ticket with President Hayes, he was installed in office through the decision of the Electoral Commission, and at the end of his See also: term he retired from public See also: life
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He died at Malone on the 4th of June 1887
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