Henry Wilson

18th Vice President
Political Party	Republican
Term 	March 4, 1873 - November 22, 1875  (61-63)
President 	Ulysses S. Grant
Predecessor 	Schuyler Colfax
Successor 	William A. Wheeler
Full Name 	Henry Wilson  (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath)
Birth 	
February 16, 1812
Farmington, New Hampshire
Father 	Winthrop Colbath  (1787-1860)
Mother 	Abigail Witham  (1785-1866)
Brothers 	
Albert Colbath  (1811-1811)
John Francis Colbath  (1815-1897)
Charles Colbath  (1816-1877)
Samuel Colbath  (1818-1819)
George Albert Colbath  (1821-1894)
Military Services	
Brigadier General
22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
1843-1852
Colonel
United States Union Army
1861
Occupation 	
Chairman on the Senate Committee on Military Affairs  (1861-1873)
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts  (1855-1873)
Delegate to the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention  (1853)
Owner and Editor of the Boston Republican Newspaper  (1848-1851)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives  (1841-1852)
Shoe Manufacturer
Teacher
Death 	
November 22, 1875
Washington, D.C.
(63 years)
Marriages
Harriet Malvina Howe  (1824-1870)	
Married October 28, 1840
Widowed May 28, 1870
(29 years)
Children
Henry Hamilton Wilson	
Born 1846
Died 1866
(20 years)
Eva Wilson 	
Born 1848
Died 1848
(less than 1 year)