Vice President under Rutherford Hayes March 4, 1877 until March 3, 1881
WHEELER, William Almon,a
Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United States; born in
Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., June 30, 1819; completed preparatory studies;
attended the Franklin Academy at Malone and the University of Vermont at
Burlington; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced in
Malone, N.Y.; district attorney for Franklin County, N.Y., 1846-1849; member,
State assembly 1850-1851; member, State senate 1858-1860; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863);
delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1867 and 1868; elected to
the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3,
1877); was not a candidate for reelection, having been nominated in 1876 as the
Republican candidate for Vice President; elected Vice President of the United
States on the Republican ticket with Rutherford Hayes in 1876; inaugurated in
March 1877 and served until March 1881; retired from public life and active
business pursuits because of ill health; died in Malone, N.Y., June 4, 1887;
interment in Morningside Cemetery. - -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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