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Vice President Henry Wilson |
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Henry Wilson was an American statesman and the
18th Vice President of the United States (1873-75)
during President Ulysses S. Grant's second term.
He was also a 4-term U.S. Senator (1855-73), and
a writer/historian of Military Measures of the
United States Congress and History of the Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power in America. Wilson
was owner and editor of the antislavery periodical
Boston Republican (1848-51). He ranks as one of
the most effective and eloquent opponents of slavery
in 19th century U.S. politics.
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Biographical fast facts |
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Full or original name at birth: Jeremiah Jones Colbath*
Date and place of birth: February 16, 1812,
Farmington, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Date, place and cause of death: November 22, 1875,
at 7:20 a.m., U.S. Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (Stroke)
Marriage
Wife: Harriet Malvina Howe (m. 1840 - 1870) (her death)
Children
Son: Henry Hamilton Wilson
Adopted daughter: Eva Wilson
Parents
Father: Winthrop Colbath, Jr. (a laborer) (b. April 7, 1787,
Farmington, New Hampshire - d. February 10, 1860, Natick, Massachusetts)
Mother: Abigail Colbath (b. March 21, 1785 - d. August 8, 1866)
Burial site: Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Error correction or clarification |
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* His father named him after
a wealthy bachelor neighbor in a futile attempt
to receive an inheritance from him. A child of
extreme poverty, he would serve 11 years as an
indentured laborer, beginning when he was just
10 years of age. He grew to hate his name, and
upon his release at age 21, he had it legally
changed on the advice of the family with whom
he had lived and been indentured from age 10-21.
He chose the name Henry Wilson, inspired by a
biography he'd read.
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Sources |
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More than two dozen sources were consulted in preparing
this profile.
The most in-depth of these was the biography,
The Life and Public Services of Henry Wilson, Late
Vice-President of the United States, by Elias Nason
and Thomas Russell (1876).
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