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President, has been given in the article on
Presidents.
HENRY WILSON.

party, made sixty speeches in Massachu
sets IN favor of General Harrison, the
Wing candidate. This was Henry Wilson
who, third of a century later, became the
eighteenth ce-President. None of hi:
predecessors or successors in the Govern.
ments second highest executive post ever
struggled against so MANY difficulties il
his earlier career as Wilson did. His
original name was Jeremiah Jones Col
bath, but at his request the Legislature
permitted him to change it to that by
which he has been known to the country
The appellation 'sNatick cobbler' was
not, when applied to him, meaningless
designation, for he worked several wears al
| shoemaking in Natick, and the money he
| thus earned enabled him TO pay large
| part of the expenses of the tuition which
he subsequently, gained in his native State
of New Hampshire. He was u wears Of
age when he began the shoemaking trade
while nearly all of his previous life, from
his 10th year, had been passed in working
on farm. Up to his oath year the time
he had spent in school did not exceed
twelve months in all. The remainder Of
this schooling was that obtained in the
Granite State after leaving the shoemaker
bench. Wilson was % years of age when
he stumped Massachusetts, for William
Henry Harrison in 1910. His public
career may be said to have begun at that
time. Next year he was chosen to the
Massachusetts, Legislature, in one or the
other branch of which body he served
about ten years, and was a delegate to all
| the Wing National Conventions held in
that time.
The trucking OF the Wing party to the
| slave power soon became displeasing to
Wilson, and he withdrew from it tempo.
| rarily, and in 1852 allied himself with the
Free Democrats, an anti-slavery organiza-
ton, which was sort of successor to the
Free Soil party of 1S4S. He presided
over the Convention of Free Democrats in
1852 which nominated John p. Hale for
the Presidency. When the slavery party
| succeeded IN repeating the Missouri Com
promise, Wilson assisted in founding the
Republican organization, and at once be-
came one of the most conspicuous members.
In 1865 Wilson entered the National
Legislature, serving in the Senate from
that year until he resigned to take the
Vice-Presidency in 1873. During the war
period he was one of the most active and
useful members of Congress. For a time
he was in the field with the Army of the
Potomac, in command of the 22d Reei.
ment of Massachusetts, Volunteers.
The time between March 4, 1878, and
November %, 1875, when his death took
place, comprised Wilson's service in the
Vice-Presidency. This was during the
second term of President Grant. He was
the fourth of the Vice Presidents who died
in office. Wilson was the author of many
books on episodes of political history, the
best known of which is the ''History of the
Rise and Fall Of the Slave Power"
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
William A. Wheeler, the nineteenth
Nice-President, began his career on the
national stage at the beginning of the war,
being a member of the House of Repre-.
| sentatives of the Thirty Congress
which net in special session on July 4
| 1861, pursuant to call of President Lin
coin, He had previously been District
Attorney of his county in New York, and
member of both branches of the Legisla-
ture, being for two years President pro
tenn. of the upper branch. Most of the
time between 1861 and 1877 he remained
In the House, bearing a leading part in
the deliberations of that body during the
war and reconstruction period. From
March 4, 1877 to the same date in 1881
he was Nice-President, having filled the
secord place on the Hayes ticket. At his
death, in 1887, he was IS years of age.
| The record of Chester A. Arthur. the
twentieth Vice-President, who went to the
Presidency on the death of Garfield, was
presented when the Presidents careers
were given in these columns.
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
The twenty-first and latest Vice-Presi-
dent chosen for a term which is ended,
was Thomas A. Hendricks. The name OF
no other Democrat has been so often be-
fore national Convention for the Presi-
dental nomination as that of Hendricks
He received votes for that position in
1868. when Seymour was nominated in
1876, when Greeley was selected; and in
| 1880, when Hancock carried off the prize
Hendricks was twice the nominee of his
party for the Vice-Presidency. In 1876
he was on the ticket with Tilden, receiv.
ing 1S4 electoral votes to 1S5 for Wheeler
Eight years later, when occupying the sec
ond place on the Cleveland ticket, he wa.
elected, his antagonist at that time being
John A. Logan. Hendricks lived to serve
only nine months of the first year of hi.
term, being 66 years of age at his death
He was the fifth Nice-President who dice
in Office.
From the time of his entrance into til,
House of Representatives in 1851 to hi
death in 1885, Thomas A. Hendricks hac
been one OF the most prominent member
of his party in Indiana. From the mid
die of the war until near the close of tn,
reconstruction period he was in the Sen
ate, and during that time he was one O
the ablest and most aggressive foes of tn,
Republican policy in either branch o
Congress. His colleague during the latte
part of his service in the Senate wa.
Oliver p. Morton, the Hoosier State
great war Governor Hendricks wa
twice elected Governor of his State. be
ginning in 1872, and held that office whel
nominated for the Vice Presidency in 1876
LEVI P. MORTON.
The public career of Levi 2. Morton
the twenty second and latest -Presi
dent, has neither been long nor brilliant
1t has been fairly creditable, however, il
all respects. He was chosen to the popu
lar branch of Congress twice-in 1873 ant
| lSS0-but served only one term, acceptin,
the French mission in 1881, before tn
Congress to which he was elected in 1881
assembled. He held that post four years
For the past quarter of century he ha
been member Of one of the leading bank
ing firms of the United States. This i
about all there is in the record of Mr.
Morton which would be of interest to tn,
public.
DISTINGUISHED PARTY LEADERS.
Here is the roll of men who have
filled the second executive office under tn,
Government Many of them-as Adams
Jefferson, Calhoun, Van Buren,, r. NJ
johnson, Tyler, Dallas, King, Andrew
johnson, Wilson and Hendricks-wer,
among the oldest and most distinguishe,
of the country's publicists and partisan
leaders, and some of them as Calhoun, Ty
Ter, Dallas, King, Wilson and Hendrick
had a far more extended polItica
experience and broader and better knowl
edge of governmental affairs than the mer
who occupied the first place on the tickle
on which they were chosen.
In the contribution of Vice President
ten States have borne part. Maine
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennesse,
and Alabama each furnished one; Indiana
Kentucky and Virginia each two; Massa
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