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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (/ ˈ s k aɪ l ər ˈ k oʊ l f æ k s / SKY-lər KOHL-fax; March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869.
Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name surfaced during witness testimony in a House investigation of the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal. [4] Under this cloud of suspicion, on February 20, 1873 (less than a month before Colfax's term expired), Representative Fernando Wood introduced a resolution to investigate the vice president's conduct.
Schuyler Colfax III (/ ˈ s k aɪ l ə r ˈ k oʊ l f æ k s /; April 11, 1870 – March 29, 1925) was an American Republican politician who served as the 11th mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 1898 to 1902. [1]
The chair that Schuyler Colfax used as Speaker of the House under President Abraham Lincoln and the gown that his wife, Ellen Wade Colfax, wore March 4, 1869, at his inauguration as vice president ...
For vice president the delegates chose Speaker Schuyler Colfax, who was Grant's choice. In Grant's acceptance telegram, a letter to then President of the Republican National Convention Joseph R. Hawley, Grant said "Let us have peace". [1]
This was the 21st presidential inauguration and marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Ulysses S. Grant as president and the only term of Schuyler Colfax as vice president. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase administered the presidential oath of office.
Feb. 4, 1905: “The Beth-El association has closed a contract with Hon. Schuyler Colfax and Mrs. Ellen Colfax for the property at the southwest corner of LaSalle avenue and Taylor street. The ...
The Colfax Memorial is installed in the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza's University Park. The bronze sculpture measures approximately 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) x 2 ft (0.61 m) x 2 ft (0.61 m). and rests on an Oak Hill granite pedestal that measures approximately 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) x 7.66 ft (2.33 m) x 6.67 ft (2.03 m).