Brisbin, James S. The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax. Cincinnati: C.F. Vent & Co.; Chicago: J.S. Goodman & Co., 1868.
COLFAX, Schuyler, a Representative from Indiana and a Vice President of the United States; born in New York City March 23, 1823; attended the common schools; in 1836 moved with his parents to New Carlisle, Ind.; appointed deputy auditor of St. Joseph County 1841; became a legislative correspondent for the Indiana State Journal; purchased an interest in the South Bend Free Press and changed its name in 1845 to the St. Joseph Valley Register, the Whig organ of northern Indiana; member of the State constitutional convention in 1850; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868, having become the Republican nominee for Vice President; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Gen. Ulysses Grant in 1868, was inaugurated March 4, 1869, and served until March 3, 1873; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872, owing to charges of corruption in connection with the Credit Mobilier of America scandal; lecturer; died in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn., January 13, 1885; interment in City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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[ Top ]Brisbin, James S. The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax. Cincinnati: C.F. Vent & Co.; Chicago: J.S. Goodman & Co., 1868.
Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont). Grant and Colfax: Their Lives and Services. New York: Richardson and Company, [pref. 1868].
Carey, Henry Charles. The Farmer's Question: Letters to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Philadelphia: Collins, 1865.
Colfax, Schuyler. Example and Effort: An Address Delivered Before the Congressional Temperance Society at Washington, D.C. New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1872.
___. Free Sugar. [Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1857.]
___. Fremont's hundred days in Missouri: Speech of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in reply to Mr. Blair, of Missouri, delivered in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1862. Washington: Scammell, [1862].
___. Kansas--the Lecompton Constitution. Speech of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, March 20, 1858. Washington: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1858.
___. The "laws" of Kansas. Speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. In the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856. New York: Greeley & McElrath, [1856].
___. Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia: J.B. Rodgers, printer, 1865.
___. Speeches of Messrs. Colfax, of Indiana, and Thaddeus Stevens of Penn. [Washington: Scammell & co., printers, 1862].
Hollister, Ovando J. Life of Schuyler Colfax. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1886.
The life and times of Hon. Schuyler Colfax. New York: E. B. Treat & co.; Chicago, Ill.: C. W. Lilley [etc., etc.], 1868.
The lives and public services of General U. S. Grant, U. S. A. and of Hon. Schuyler Colfax. Philadelphia: N.p., 1868.
The lives of General U.S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. This work is a complete history of the lives of General Ulysses S. Grant, and of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, from their birth up to the present time. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1868].
Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax: Candidates of the National Republican Party for President and Vice President of the United States, illustrated with portraits, containing, also, a correct genealogical summary of the Grant family, now first published. Cincinnati: Padrick & Co., 1868.
Mansfield, Edward Deering. Popular and Authentic Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. Cincinnati, [Ohio]: R.W. Carroll & Co., 1868.
[McCabe, James Dabney]. The Life and Public Services of Schuyler Colfax. New York: United States publishing company; Chicago: P. Garrett & co. [etc., etc.], 1868.
Moore, A. Y. (Ambrose Yoemans). The Life of Schuyler Colfax. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1868].
Phelps, Charles A. Life and public services of General Ulysses S. Grant, from his boyhood to the present time. And a biographical sketch of Hon. Schuyler Colfax. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868.
Richardson, Albert Deane. A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant, and Sketch of Schuyler Colfax. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; San Francisco, Calif.: R. J. Trumbull & Co., 1868.
Sketches of the lives and services of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax, national Republican candidates for president and vice president of the United States. [Washington: Chronicle print., 1868].
Smith, Willard Harvey. The Life and Times of Hon. Schuyler Colfax. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1952.
___. Schuyler Colfax: The Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1952.
___. "The Political Career of Schuyler Colfax to His Election as Vice-President in 1868." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1939.