Connecticut western news., 1885-12-02
MIR. HENDR CKs' CAREER.
COnSpicuOus i'm National anI State
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 Thomas Andrews Hen rcks was bern in Muskingum County, Ohio, near the city of Zanesvills, Septemb-r |, lSl9, ana conSe- nuently was in the 6ith year of his age. His father, Major Hendricks, removed his family 10 Madison Indiana, wIen the future ice President was but year old. After receiv- ing a good school education, he attended Hanover ollege one of the pioneer institu- tions of learning in the West. After his graduation he studied law, and at an early age was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has been prom nent in the legal pro. fesSiOn, except when he was commissioner or the general land office and the two terms two years each when he was governor of the State of Indiana. For thirty seven years he has been before the public-ever since he was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1S4S In 1850 he was elected a delegate to the convention which framed the present constitution of his State, and was very active Ill its councils, The following year he was electe a member of Congress for an uneXpired term, and was returned to the House at the next election. In 1885 he was app )inted by President Pierce commissioner Of the general land office, which position he held until 1859 Mir. Hendricks was elpcte to the Unitel States Senate in 1865. In 1872 he was elected Governor of his State over Colonel Tom Browne hy 1 .04S Iud lOIltJ l.SHTN6l III UUdS Cdpd 'lly Blue Jeans Williams took his seat il 1871. Mr. Hendricks ability and political s1gaci- lty made him prominent candidate for the presidency as far back as 1888 and in the convention of that year he at one time led all the other aspirants, receiving the solid vote of the States of New York, Indiana, Minnesota, and other states in the great Northwest Ohio. however threw her vote and influence for Horatio Seymour. an caused stampede, which resulte lin Mir. Seymour'S nom nation. shorty afterward he was made the candi- date of his party for governor of Indiana, and, after most exciting campaign, i'll which he engaged ill joint debate with his oppo- neat, Conra1 Baker, he was defeated by a plurality of 9i2 votes. After the election of 1872, and before the meeting of the electoral college, Horace Greeley, the standard bearer of ths Democracy, died. When the electors met Mir. Hendricks received forty-two out of the sixty three to which his party were en- titled
 At the Democratic National convention in St. Louis in 1872 which nominated Mir. Tilden for President MT. Hendricks was nominated for the office of Nice-Presideht on the fl st ballot. In the election of that year Tild len and Hendricks received 4, PSI, SS5 popular votes to 4,o3} 9j0 cast for Hayes and Wheel ! CT. The ectoral votes of Florida, Louisi- | ana, South Carolina and Oregon were dis l puted. The story of the form ltion If the | electoral commission, and its deciSi n by a
  | Wheeler, Is too vel known to re luire rep ti- ton here. Mir. Hendri ks returned once more | to his law I.ra ,tice in Indianapolis, his firm n w becoming Baker, Hendricks, Hord X | Hend icks Conrad Baker. the Vica-Presi 1 ent's ol political opponent, was a member | of the firm
 1 Mir Hendricks was again a candidate fol | the Pre- 'idency in 1SS0 but the nomina- | tion was given to General Hancock. Mir. | Hendricks opened the camoaigl in behalf oi | Hancock and English ill Marion, Ind, or | Augu.t l2. 1880. and wol ked tively for l them during the rest of the campaign.
 | In 1884 ths Democratic NationIl conven ton met in Chicagp, MT. Hendricks for the | first 'me attend ng it as a delegate. H. | the convention as can tldate for the presi. | dency, but on the second ballot re 'eived him 1 If the votes of al. the Indiana delegates ex | cept his own. Governor Cleveland, however 1 had more supporters in the convention thar Mir. Hendri ks, and received the nomination l for President When the convention was ready to re ,eive nominations for the vice | presidency Mr. Wallace, Pennsylvania, arose | and pres 'nted Mir. Hendricks's name | Governor Waller, of Connecticut, Gov ernor Hubbard of Texas, and other | call. every vote of the delegation was cast | for him. The enthusiasm of the convention was great, and finally all present joined il | singing "Old Hundred" as the only means O ! giving it expression.
 On the 4th of March Vice-P President Hen drIckS was sworn into office. lie occupied his chair as president of the Senate durin! the session of that body called to take acticI i on President Cleyeland's nominations. Sine | the adjournment of the Senate the Vice | President has spent the summer, as was hi custom, in Indianapolis and Saratoga