Schuyler Colfax | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Schuyler Colfax


00:02:19 1 Early life
00:03:51 2 Newspaper editor
00:04:37 3 Marriages and family
00:05:18 4 Whig Party delegate
00:05:48 5 Beta Theta Pi
00:06:08 6 US Representative (1855–69)
00:06:53 6.1 Know Nothing party affiliation
00:07:35 6.2 Opposition to slavery
00:08:04 6.3 Civil War
00:08:13 6.3.1 Visiting Frémont in St. Louis
00:11:18 6.3.2 Elected Speaker of the House
00:11:37 6.3.3 Announcing passage of Thirteenth Amendment
00:12:09 6.4 Reconstruction
00:12:18 6.4.1 Western travels
00:12:54 6.4.2 Addressing political situation
00:13:56 6.5 Election of 1868
00:14:34 7 Vice president (1869–1873)
00:15:26 7.1 Italian unity
00:16:14 7.2 Election of 1872
00:17:33 7.3 Crédit Mobilier scandal (1872–1873)
00:20:15 8 Lecturer and business executive
00:21:40 9 Declined to run for office (1882)
00:22:31 10 Death and burial
00:23:20 11 Historical reputation
00:26:01 12 Media portrayals
00:26:26 13 Odd Fellows: founder of Rebekah Degree
00:27:00 14 Publications



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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (; March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician from Indiana.  He served as a United States Representative (1855–69), Speaker of the House of Representatives (1863–69), and the 17th Vice President of the United States (1869–73). To date, he is one of only two Americans (John Nance Garner is the other) to have served as both House speaker and vice president.
Colfax was known for his opposition to slavery while serving in Congress, and was a founder of the Republican Party. In January 1865, as Speaker of the House, Colfax made the unusual choice to cast a vote for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. (Speakers are able to vote on House motions but, by convention, rarely do so.) After winning the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant and  Colfax, at ages 46 and 45, were the youngest Presidential ticket elected in the 19th Century. Believing Grant would only serve one term, in 1870 Colfax attempted unsuccessfully to garner support for the 1872 presidential nomination by telling friends and supporters he would not seek a second vice presidential term.   Grant ran again, and Colfax reversed himself and attempted to win the vice presidential nomination, but was defeated by Henry Wilson.  In January 1871, Colfax encouraged a unified Italy to adopt a republican government that protected religious freedom and civil rights of its citizens.
An 1873 Congressional investigation into the Crédit Mobilier scandal named Colfax as one of the members of Congress (mostly Republicans) who in 1868 were offered (and possibly took) payments of cash and discounted stock from the Union Pacific Railroad in exchange for favorable action during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Colfax left the vice presidency at the end of his term in 1873 and never again ran for office. Afterwards he worked as a business executive and became a popular lecturer and speech maker.
Colfax died in Mankato, Minnesota, on January 13, 1885, while changing trains as he was en route to Rock Rapids, Iowa, to give a speech.