Henry Wilson

Henry Wilson ( born February 16, 1812 in Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, † November 22, 1875 in Washington DC; actually Jeremiah Jones Colbath ) was an American politician and from 1873 until his death, Vice President of the United States.

Life

Henry Wilson was born Jeremiah Jones Colbath in New Hampshire and was discharged from his father when he was ten years old, because of poverty at the Farmer Henry Wilson for adoption. He let modify its name in 1833 in Henry Wilson.

Wilson retired in 1833 after Natick, Massachusetts, learned shoemaking and operation in addition to the handicraft political and national economic studies. In 1840, he appeared as a supporter of the Whigs as public speaker, and was 1841-1852 Member of the Parliament of Massachusetts, where he joined the Know-Nothing Party in 1848. 1848 to 1851 he ran the way as an editor his own newspaper Boston Republican. In 1855 he was chosen for the Free Soil party as Senator from Massachusetts in the Congress, where he remained until March 3, 1873. During this time, he served as Chairman of the Military Committee.

In the American Civil War he served a short time in 1861 as a staff officer under General George McClellan. In 1872, Wilson, who had meanwhile joined the Republicans, Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant. He died after a stroke in 1875 at the Capitol in Washington prior to the expiration of his term. The Office of the Vice President remained vacant until 1877, because it was occupied at that time only by popular vote in every four years.

Works

  • History of antislavery measures (1864 )
  • History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America. 3 vols, unfinished ( 1872-1876 )
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