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Register, which he published for eighteen years and made an influential Whig and later Republican journal. In 185o he was a member of the state constitutional See also:

convention, and in 1854 took an active See also:

PART

part in organizing the " See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

Anti-See also:

NEBRASKA

Nebraska men " (later called Republicans) of his state, and was by them sent to See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress. Here he served with distinction from 1855 until 1869, the last six years as See also:

SPEAKER

speaker of the See also:

House. At the See also:

close of the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War he was a leading member of the See also:

RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

radical wing of the Republican party, advocating the disfranchisement of all who had been prominent in the service of the Confederacy, and declaring that " See also:

LOYALTY

loyalty must govern what loyalty has pre-served." In 1868 he had presidential aspirations, and was not without supporters. He accepted, however, the Republican nomination as vice-president on a See also:

TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket headed by See also:

General See also:

Grant, and was elected; but he failed in 1872 to secure renomination. During the political See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1872 he was accused, with other prominent politicians, of being implicated in corrupt transactions with the See also:

CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

Credit Mobilier, and a congressional investigation brought out the fact that he had agreed to take twenty shares from this concern, and had received dividends amounting to $1200. It also leaked out during the investigation that he had received in 1868, as a campaign contribution, a See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of $4000 from a contractor who had supplied the See also:

government with envelopes while Colfax was chairman of the See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of the House. At the close of his See also:

TERM

term Colfax returned to private See also:

LIFE

life under a See also:

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

cloud, and during the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his lifetime earned a livelihood by delivering popular lectures.

He died at See also:

MANKATO

Mankato, See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota, on the 13th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1885. See J. C. Hollister's Life of Schuyler Colfax (New York, 1886).

End of Article: COLFAX, SCHUYLER (1823-1885)

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