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See also:HENDRICKS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:ANDREWS (1819-1885) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States in 1885, was See also:born near See also:Zanesville, See also:Ohio, on the 7th of See also:September 1819. He graduated at See also:Hanover See also:College, Hanover, See also:Indiana, in 1841, and began in 1843 a successful career at the See also:bar. Identifying himself with the Democratic party, he served in the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1848, and was a prominent member of the See also:convention for the revision of the state constitution in 1850-1851, a representative in See also:Congress (1851-1855), See also:commissioner of the United States See also:General See also:Land 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 (1855-18J9), a United States senator (1863-1869), and See also:governor of Indiana (1873-1877). From 1868 until his See also:death he was put forward for nomination for the See also:presidency at every See also:national Democratic Convention See also:save in 1872. Both in 1876 and 1884, after his failure to receive the nomination for the presidency, he was nominated by the Democratic National Convention for vice-president, his nomination in each of these conventions being made partly, it seems, with the See also:hope of gaining "greenback" votes—Hendricks had opposed the immediate resumption of specie payments. In 1876, with S. J: See also:Tilden, he lost the disputed See also:election by the decision of the electoral See also:commission, but he was elected with Grover See also:Cleveland in 1884. He died at See also:Indianapolis on the 25th of See also:November 1885.
End of Article: HENDRICKS, THOMAS ANDREWS (1819-1885)
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