#schuyler colfax

[generic-lab-assistant]

Historical figures stuff from requests (thank u all for your service :3)

[livesinyesterday]

"I suppose it's time to go, though I would rather stay."

7:22 am, April 15th, 1865: Abraham Lincoln dies in the Petersen House

[epoxyconfetti]

OMG a Schuyler Colfax joke! Never thought I'd see one of those.

Why? I went to Schuyler-Colfax Junior High School. Notice the hyphen. The school is named not for him (the only US Vice President to have a (failed) impeachment vote), but for the Schuyler-Colfax House, a colonial "mansion" in my home town. It was built in 1695, and later named for the marriage of a cousin of 🎶The Schuyler Sisters🎶 to William Colfax, commander of George Washington's guards. The later VP and stylish beard owner was their grandson.

[deadpresidents]

2 and a half weeks until JC passes Cactus Jack!

It took me a little bit to figure out what you were referencing, but yes, Jimmy Carter will pass John Nance Garner as the longest-living President or Vice President in American history on September 18th. And if he is still with us on October 1st, Carter will be the first President or Vice President in American history to celebrate their 99th birthday.

And since I'm a huge dork who finds this stuff interesting, here's the big, complete list of longest-living to shortest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents in American history: (Presidents are in bold text, Vice Presidents are in italics, and those who served as both POTUS and VP are in bold italics.) John Nance Garner: 98 years, 351 days Jimmy Carter: 98 years, 337 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Levi P. Morton: 96 years, 0 days George H.W. Bush: 94 years, 171 days Gerald R. Ford: 93 years, 165 days Ronald Reagan: 93 years, 120 days Walter Mondale: 93 years, 81 days John Adams: 90 years, 247 days Herbert Hoover: 90 years, 71 days Harry S. Truman: 88 years, 232 days Charles G. Dawes: 85 years, 239 days James Madison: 85 years, 104 days Thomas Jefferson: 83 years, 82 days Dick Cheney: 82 years, 216 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Hannibal Hamlin: 81 years, 311 days Richard Nixon: 81 years, 104 days Joe Biden: 80 years, 287 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) John Quincy Adams: 80 years, 227 days Aaron Burr: 80 years, 220 days Martin Van Buren: 79 years, 231 days Adlai E. Stevenson: 78 years, 234 days Dwight D. Eisenhower: 78 years, 165 days Alben W. Barkley: 78 years, 157 days Andrew Jackson: 78 years, 85 days Spiro Agnew: 77 years, 261 days Donald Trump: 77 years, 81 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) George W. Bush: 77 years, 59 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry A. Wallace: 77 years, 42 days James Buchanan: 77 years, 39 days Bill Clinton: 77 years, 15 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Dan Quayle: 76 years, 211 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Charles Curtis: 76 years, 14 days Al Gore: 75 years, 156 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Millard Fillmore: 74 years, 60 days James Monroe: 73 years, 67 days George Clinton: 72 years, 268 days George M. Dallas: 72 years, 174 days William Howard Taft: 72 years, 174 days John Tyler: 71 years, 295 days Grover Cleveland: 71 years, 98 days Thomas R. Marshall: 71 years, 79 days Nelson Rockefeller: 70 years, 202 days Elbridge Gerry: 70 years, 129 days Rutherford B. Hayes: 70 years, 105 days Richard M. Johnson: 70 years, 33 days William Henry Harrison: 68 years, 54 days John C. Calhoun: 68 years, 13 days William A. Wheeler: 67 years, 339 days George Washington: 67 years, 295 days Benjamin Harrison: 67 years, 205 days Woodrow Wilson: 67 years, 36 days William R. King: 67 years, 11 days Hubert H. Humphrey: 66 years, 231 days Andrew Johnson: 66 years, 214 days Thomas A. Hendricks: 66 years, 79 days Charles W. Fairbanks: 66 years, 24 days Zachary Taylor: 65 years, 227 days Franklin Pierce: 64 years, 319 days Lyndon B. Johnson: 64 years, 148 days Mike Pence: 64 years, 88 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry Wilson: 63 years, 279 days Ulysses S. Grant: 63 years, 87 days Franklin D. Roosevelt: 63 years, 72 days Barack Obama: 62 years, 30 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Schuyler Colfax: 61 years, 296 days Calvin Coolidge: 60 years, 185 days Theodore Roosevelt: 60 years, 71 days Kamala Harris: 58 years, 318 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days Chester A. Arthur: 57 years, 44 days James S. Sherman: 57 years, 6 days Abraham Lincoln: 56 years, 62 days Garret A. Hobart: 55 years, 171 days John C. Breckinridge: 54 years, 116 days James K. Polk: 53 years, 225 days Daniel D. Tompkins: 50 years, 355 days James Garfield: 49 years, 304 days John F. Kennedy: 46 years, 177 days

[coochiequeens]

On March 3, 1873 Congress passed the Comstock Act. Ladies reblog because now we can share information about birth control and sexual health.

https://www.history.com/news/comstock-act-1873-obscenity-contraception-mail

How an Anti-Obscenity Crusader Policed America's Mail for Decades

Anthony Comstock convinced Congress that US mail was filled with filth. After they passed the Comstock Act, he became a fervent one-man censor.

Anthony Comstock knew obscenity when he saw it, and the famous anti-vice crusader saw it everywhere. From the 1870s into the early 20th century, the dry goods salesman-turned-self-appointed-censor was a man on a mission—to impose his sense of morality on what Americans read, saw and even did in their own bedrooms. 

Though not an elected legislator, the devout Protestant, who was appalled by the sexual permissiveness he witnessed in New York City, largely rewrote federal postal laws "to prevent the mails from being used to corrupt the public morals." And he got a compliant Congress to pass them. Some historians suggest that the politicians were looking for an issue that would divert public attention from the Credit Mobilier scandal, in which many of them were involved.

While there were already laws on the books against obscenity, Comstock managed to expand the scope of “obscene, lewd or lascivious” material to include information on birth control and abortion. 

The post office made him a special agent, with the power to conduct raids and arrest suspected violators. He exercised that authority with gusto for the next 42 years, claiming credit for nearly 4,000 convictions, 160 tons of destroyed books and other materials and at least 15 suspects driven to suicide. 

Up to his death in 1915, Comstock was admired in some quarters for his moral rectitude—and ridiculed in others as a prig and a busybody. Today, he may seem like a relic of the Victorian Age, but his laws affected American life for decades and his spirit lives on in the never-ending battles over censorship, free speech, the right to privacy and the proper role of government in citizens’ lives.

Comstock’s ‘Chamber of Horrors’

In 1872, Comstock began visiting Washington, D.C. to lobby lawmakers for stricter vice laws. In one celebrated show-and-tell presentation in Vice President Schuyler Colfax’s office, he wowed Senators with a selection of dirty books, pornographic playing cards and contraceptive devices. He referred to the collection as his “Chamber of Horrors.” 

Comstock had already made a name for himself in New York as the leader of the YMCA’s Committee for the Suppression of Vice. He used his position to confiscate and destroy books and other materials he believed could corrupt the morals of young men. The law that allowed him to carry out his raids, New York’s Obscene Literature Act of 1868, also gave him a cut of any fines.

But Comstock had grander ambitions—not just to clean up New York, but the entire country. 

In 1873, he got his way when Congress passed An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. It became commonly known as the Comstock Act. 

Days after the law passed, the post office gave him the authority to enforce his own rules. While other obscenity laws allowed Comstock to conduct raids on booksellers and publishers and harass art gallery owners with nude paintings on exhibit, the Comstock laws technically required that the material pass through the mail before he could take action.

Rather than wait for that to happen, Comstock would send away for materials on contraception and other forbidden topics using assumed names. “In some cases, he concocted entire families, individuals sharing a last name, living in the same town,” Amy Sohn reports her 2021 book about Comstock, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age. When the packages arrived, he pounced.

The federal Comstock laws weren’t universally loved, and there were numerous attempts to repeal them on the federal level. Many state legislatures embraced them with enthusiasm, however, and more than half the states enacted their own Comstock laws in succeeding years. Some were harsher than the federal original. 

Meanwhile, legislators continued to tinker with the 1873 law. In 1908, for example, it banned as “indecent” any material that might “incite arson, murder or assassination.” This was an era when concern over anarchism and socialism ran high and, as Sohn notes, Comstock’s law was “evolving to meet the times.” 

Comstock’s attacks on contraception happened to coincide with the growing women’s rights movement, for which family planning and women��s control of their own bodies were core issues. 

The anarchist activist Emma Goldman and the birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger were two of his more prominent targets, and they returned the favor by denouncing him in their publications and from the lecture stage. 

In 1914, he arranged to have Sanger indicted over the contents of her magazine The Woman Rebel, which he called “obscene, lewd and lascivious.” Threatened with a potential 45-year prison term, she fled the country, but returned to face trial in 1915. The case was dismissed the following year when the government dropped the charges. 

Meanwhile, Comstock died of pneumonia in September 1915, at age 71. He had continued his crusade to the end, sometimes to the point of absurdity. Appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as U.S. delegate to the International Purity Conference in San Francisco, he was disturbed to see naked mannequins in department store windows there (apparently still being worked on by window-dressers) and decided to make a federal case of it. He lost.

Comstock Laws After Comstock

Over the course of the 20th century, court rulings would gradually whittle away at the original Comstock laws and their state imitators. But every now and then, publishers and the public would be reminded that the law was still on the books.

In 1943, the postmaster general moved to take away Esquiremagazine’s second-class mailing privileges on the grounds that some of its cartoons and other contents were obscene. (Less-expensive second-class mail was vital for many magazines’ survival.) The case dragged on until 1946 before the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s verdict in Esquire’s favor. 

In 1955 a new postmaster denied Playboy magazine’s request for a second-class permit, prompting publisher Hugh Hefner to remark that, “We don’t think Postmaster General Summerfield has any business editing magazines. He should stick to delivering mail.” Like Esquire, Playboy prevailed in court. 

These days, the postal laws rarely make headlines or lead to major court cases. While would-be censors of various political persuasions periodically call for greater restraints on social media and the Internet, that cause has yet to find its own Anthony Comstock. 

[the-firebird69]

At the 1868 Republican National Convention, the delegates unanimously nominated Grant for president and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax for vice president.[263] Although Grant had preferred to remain in the army, he accepted the Republican nomination, believing that he was the only one who could unify the nation

Ulysess means wrathful

grant and it means to give to one and it is about land grants to mine and his plan but per the mac plan. and to myself monies and he is a repbulican.

trump hs the nomination...the apparent nominee

and has it due to primaries. and those are elections.

He becomes president only days after Lincoln is shot under a different name and he ran for president it was going on during the Civil War. There's no time to do all of this and the candidates don't line up. Lincoln was president during the Civil War and that was John Remallard and he was killed and he was killed as Hitler. He was killed by this man who kills his son and takes over his role to become president and people are aware of it and that's how it's supposed to go it doesn't seem to be going that way and we're surprised that things have not progressed along yet and there are things that might happen that might change what's happening however Trump is getting weaker by far it will be very weak in a couple of weeks and it won't go the way that he's thinking. And history won't repeat itself the exact way and that's what we think might happen.

Thor Freya

It really does not look it . And in order for it to happen the election would have to be won by Trump and that's November and he just is not gonna make it to that we don't think so he's getting smaller and smaller and smaller when he is supported by a lot of Max and he supported for the plan and we don't know if we could handle this particular women in charge and he says that unfortunately might be analogous to a demon and yeah that's true then the vice president might be tommy F Who's playing the black guy in the detective movie and he's really the bad guy. And could be the vice president running mate. And they might become president and vice president and Trump would already be gone out of the race and would have lost it and it's kind of what happens at the end of the civil war and it would be premature but he did take it in office by osmosis but it was from Trump and his son and that didn't happen and he was upset and he was trying to kill him the whole time it tried to kill Dave. So they think they defeated the curse but Camilla is gonna have a tough time and she's kind of like a little girl and she's not a bad person she's nice to her son and nephew and wants to be back to normal and holds the holds her hostage but is seeing it's kind of wrong and they're gonna see that it's very wrong and that's where things change she's got a small group and they're weak and her isolated she's going to show her teeth and they will knock her down we think.

mac proper

i admit probalby need them out and she says no

camilla

this will do that and tehn macs will collect or you shall be reunited

caa

good

Hera

i see it and this is how. wow.

cammilla and me back to nz fine ok

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[dixiedrudge]

Stoopid yankee Tricks - Woke School APOLOGIZES for Telling Children ISIS is a Terrorist Group (NJ)

Help Dixie Defeat Big-Tech Censorship! Spread the Word! Like, Share, Re-Post, and Subscribe! There’s a lot more to see at our main page, Dixie Drudge! (Daily Fetched) – A middle school in New Jersey has been forced to apologize for teaching its pupils that terrorist group ISIS is a….terrorist group. Children at Schuyler Colfax Middle School in Wayne, New Jersey, were asked to select one answer in…

[independentjournalism]

The Unforgettable Journey of Schuyler Colfax: A South Bend Legacy

Schuyler Colfax’s life was a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, ambition, and political intrigue. Born on March 23, 1823, in New York City to a family scarred by tragedy, his early years were marked by loss and struggle. His father’s untimely death from tuberculosis, just 5 months before Schuyler’s birth, and the passing of his sister 4 months later left him with a mother and grandmother…

[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Saturday, 23rd March

Welcome, მოგესალმებით (mogesalmebit), dobrodošli, üdvözöljük 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 23rd March through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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23rd March 2019 🗓️ : Event - Kazakhstan The Kazakh capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan. "Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline..."

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23rd March 2014 🗓️ : Death - Adolfo Suárez Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932) "Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ˈswaɾeθ]; 25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's transition..."

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23rd March 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Mark Hunt Mark Hunt, New Zealand mixed martial artist "Mark Hunt (born 23 March 1974) is a New Zealand former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. Hunt competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) until 2018 and was the winner of the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix. He is known as "King of Walk-Offs" due to his popularization of walking..."

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23rd March 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Rodney Mims Cook Sr. Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2013) "Rodney Mims Cook (March 23, 1924 – January 13, 2013) was an American politician who served for over twenty years as Atlanta alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Cook was one of the first Republican officials elected in Georgia since Reconstruction. He served at-large as an..."

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23rd March 1823 🗓️ : Birth - Schuyler Colfax Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885) "Schuyler Colfax ( SKY-lər KOHL-fax; March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869...."

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23rd March 🗓️ : Holiday - Pakistan Day (Pakistan) "Pakistan Day (Urdu: یومِ پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) or Pakistan Resolution Day, also Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan primarily commemorating the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on..."

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[wanderingmind867]

My US Voting Record:

I made this with the help of wikipedia, google and posts like voting guides which I found online.

Note: I would have been a Monarchist during the Revolutionary War, but I'd probably still vote if living in America (No matter how displeased the revolution made me, I'd probably still always be willing to vote). But to show my dissatisfaction, every vote until 1824 is a protest vote:

1788: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1792: Nobody (I refuse to vote for George Washington). Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1796: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1800: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1804: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1808: Maybe a write in protest vote for King George III?

1812: Protest Vote for King George III (I can't vote for anyone after the War of 1812 got started)

1816: Protest Vote for King George III (again, I don't know if I'd be able to forgive anyone after the War of 1812)

1820: Protest Vote for King George IV (I can't support Monroe after he helped fight 1812 against Canada and the British).

1824: Henry Clay/Nathan Sanford

1824 Contingent: John Quincy Adams

1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush

1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant

1836: Daniel Webster/Francis Granger or William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger

1840: William Henry Harrison/John Tyler

1844: Henry Clay/Theodore Frelinghuysen

1848: Martin Van Buren/Charles F. Adams

1852: John P. Hale/George W. Julian

1856: John C. Frémont/William L. Dayton

1860: Abraham Lincoln/Hannibal Hamlin

1864: Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson

1868: Ulysses S. Grant/Schuyler Colfax

1872: Horace Greeley/Benjamin Gratz Brown

1876: Samuel Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks

1880: James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur

1884: Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks

1888: Benjamin Harrison/Levi P. Morton

1892: James B. Weaver/James G. Field

1896: William Jennings Bryan/Thomas E. Watson

1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai Stevenson I

1904: Eugene V. Debs/Benjamin Hanford

1908: William Jennings Bryan/John Kern

1912: Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel

1916: Allan L. Benson/George R. Kirkpatrick

1920: Eugene V. Debs/Seymour Stedman

1924: Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler

1928: Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson (although Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis aren't bad either. I might've been a prohibitionist then, considering I hate the taste of alcohol. But Smith opposed lynching. So he gets my vote).

1932: Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer

1936: Norman Thomas/George A. Nelson

1940: Norman Thomas/Maynard Krueger

1944: Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes

1948: Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor

1952: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman

1956: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver

1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Solely because I hate JFK)

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey

1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie

1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (although I still really like Thomas Eagleton as VP)

1976: Gerald Ford/Bob Dole

1980: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale

1984: Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro

1988: Willa Kenoyer/Ron Ehrenreich (I hear Michael Dukakis went to high school with the guy who founded the Judge Rotenberg Centre, which is a terrible place. So I can't vote for Dukakis. Can't take a chance on him with that history).

1992: Ross Perot/James Stockdale

1996: Ross Perot/Pat Choate

2000: Ralph Nader/Winona Laduke

2004: Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo

2008: Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez

2012: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Beginning in 2012, I'd probably start voting for Democrats more often because I felt I had no choice. But I'm still a bit unhappy with them. Haven't been since 1988 or 1992).

2016: Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear

2020: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (My heart says Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker, however).

[musicalmccarter]

My super cool band teacher allowed me to drive an hour and 16 minutes to see this super cool (made in 1972) Federal Sign and Signal Thunderbolt 1003A. Located in Schuyler, Nebraska, and tested the first Tuesday at 10 AM. They did a short test today, probably because of the weather, but the sheer power of this made up for it. It violently shook the whole parking lot. What's nice about Colfax County is that they take care of their old stuff really well.

[autonebraska]

El Sheriff del Condado Stanton informó que un joven de 19 años de Schuyler perdió la vida en un accidente en el noreste de Nebraska cerca de las 3 p.m. del jueves, según un comunicado de prensa. El accidente ocurrió en la carretera 15 y la calle 822nd en la línea del condado Stanton / Colfax, al noreste de Clarkson. La investigación realizada por las oficinas del Sheriff del Condado Stanton y Colfax indica que un SUV Toyota circulaba hacia el norte en la carretera 15 cuando repentinamente giró a la izquierda fuera de la carretera hacia la calle 822nd y directamente en el camino de una camioneta que viajaba hacia el sur y que no tuvo tiempo de intentar evitar la colisión. El conductor del SUV, Jeyco González de Schuyler, fue expulsado de su vehículo y declarado muerto en el lugar, según el comunicado. El conductor de la camioneta hacia el sur, Tyler Regan, de 24 años y residente en O'Neill, fue rescatado de los escombros por el Departamento de Bomberos de Clarkson y trasladado al hospital de West Point donde fue estabilizado y luego llevado en helicóptero médico al Hospital Bergan Mercy en Omaha para tratar sus graves lesiones. El lugar del accidente bloqueó una porción de la carretera 15 durante más de tres horas. Los cinturones de seguridad y los airbags sí se desplegaron en la camioneta de Regan. La colisión causó que el eje delantero del SUV se desprendiera del marco y acabara en un arroyo fuera de la carretera. González estaba manejando el SUV con una licencia revocada, según el comunicado. El departamento de emergencia del Condado Stanton también ayudó en la escena. Ambos vehículos quedaron destruidos en el impacto a alta velocidad. #AccidenteDeTráfico #Muerte #Nebraska #CondadoStanton

[zayaanhashistory]

Crédit Mobilier

The Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872-1873 damaged the careers of several Gilded Age politicians. In one of the nation’s earliest political corruption scandals, a number of U.S. Congressmen, including the vice president, faced scrutiny and public outrage when it was revealed that Crédit Mobilier, a phony construction company set up to build the Union Pacific Railroad, had been financed with fraudulent bonds and used stocks to bribe government officials, resulting in hefty profits for its shareholders.   

The fake Crédit Mobilier of America company (its deceptive name was based on the influential French bank Crédit Mobilier, but was not connected to it), ran a fraud scheme from 1864-1867, in which executives of Union Pacific Railroad bilked the U.S. government out of upwards of $44 million, overcharging for railroad construction costs and expenses, bribing top officials and manipulating contracts. Led by Union Pacific’s Thomas C. Durant, the executives, who were also Crédit Mobilier investors, worked with U.S. Rep. Oakes Ames, a Republican from Massachusetts, to sell bargain shares to, and also bribe, a number of congressmen, including then Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, who was elected vice president on a ticket with Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. The officials were offered low-price stock options and payouts in return for no federal oversight of the company along with the approval of subsidies and various rulings that would keep actual railroad costs lower than what they claimed. ���We want more friends in this Congress, and if a man will look into the law (and it is difficult to get them to do it unless they have an interest to do so), he cannot help being convinced that we should not be interfered with,” Ames wrote in a letter to investor Henry S. Mccomb, according to the Washington Post. 

Acting on a tip from a disgruntled Mccomb, who had been denied stock by Ames, the New York Sun newspaper published an expose of the scandal on September 4, 1872. Naming the congressmen involved—and in the thick of sitting president Grant’s reelection campaign—the story included correspondence between Mccomb and Ames, and reported that the sham corporation was granted $72 million in railroad building contracts when only $53 million was actually spent. “The Credit Mobilier stock speculation shows that corruption does exist in high places,” Missouri newspaper the Lincoln County Herald wrote in December 1872, the Washington Post reports, adding that without vigilance by the public, “the first we know we’ll have been sold out to some giant railroad or other monied monopoly.” Public outrage and numerous news editorials led to two House committees and one in the Senate to investigate 13 congressmen in December 1872, with Ames, New York Democrat Rep. James Brooks and Republican Sen. James Patterson of New Hampshire, facing expulsion. “A charge of bribery of members is the gravest that can be made in a legislative body,” Speaker James Blaine of Maine, who appointed one of the investigative committees, said at the time. “It seems to me ... that this charge demands prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation.” 

In the end, Ames and Brooks were censured for using political influence for personal financial gain in 1873, while all the rest, including Colfax and then-Rep. James A. Garfield, who went on to be elected president in 1880, and Sen. Henry Wilson, who replaced Colfax as Grant’s vice-presidential running mate for reelection in 1872 in lieu of the scandal, were absolved of any charges. The Grant-Wilson ticket went on to win the presidential election in 1872, but the scandal tarnished the Republican party and resulted in widespread public distrust of the U.S. government. 

"Well, the wickedness of all of it is, not that these men were bribed or corruptly influenced, but that they betrayed the trust of the people, deceived their constituents, and be their evasions and falsehoods confessed the transaction to be disgraceful," the New York Tribune wrote on February 19, 1873. 

[deadpresidents]

Who are the youngest and oldest vice presidents

At the time of their Inauguration? Here's the list of the Vice Presidents' Age at Inauguration, from youngest-to-oldest:

AGE AT INAUGURATION: NAME OF VP [Administration] 36 years, 42 days: John C. Breckinridge [Buchanan] 40 years, 11 days: Richard Nixon [Eisenhower] 41 years, 353 days: Dan Quayle [G.H.W. Bush] 42 years, 128 days: Theodore Roosevelt [McKinley's 2nd VP] 42 years, 256 days: Daniel D. Tompkins [Monroe] 42 years, 352 days: John C. Calhoun [J.Q. Adams/Jackson's 1st VP] 44 years, 232 days: Al Gore [Clinton] 45 years, 26 days: Aaron Burr [Jefferson's 1st VP] 45 years, 346 days: Schuyler Colfax [Grant's 1st VP] 48 years, 243 days: Calvin Coolidge [Harding] 49 years, 15 days: Walter Mondale [Carter] 49 years, 56 days: Millard Fillmore [Taylor] 50 years, 72 days: Spiro Agnew [Nixon's 1st VP] 50 years, 98 days: Martin Van Buren [Jackson's 2nd VP] 50 years, 340 days: John Tyler [W.H. Harrison] 51 years, 150 days: Chester A. Arthur [Garfield] 51 years, 189 days: Hannibal Hamlin [Lincoln's 1st VP] 52 years, 105 days: Henry A. Wallace [FDR's 2nd VP] 52 years, 146 days: Lyndon B. Johnson [JFK] 52 years, 237 days: George M. Dallas [Polk] 52 years, 274 days: Garret A. Hobart [McKinley's 1st VP] 52 years, 297 days: Charles W. Fairbanks [T. Roosevelt] 53 years, 131 days: James S. Sherman [Taft] 53 years, 174 days: John Adams [Washington] 53 years, 238 days: Hubert H. Humphrey [LBJ] 53 years, 325 days: Thomas Jefferson [J. Adams] 56 years, 65 days: Andrew Johnson [Lincoln's 2nd VP] 56 years, 92 days: Kamala Harris [Biden] 56 years, 138 days: Richard M. Johnson [Van Buren] 56 years, 223 days: George H.W. Bush [Reagan] 57 years, 132 days: Adlai E. Stevenson [Cleveland's 2nd VP] 57 years, 227 days: Mike Pence [Trump] 57 years, 247 days: William A. Wheeler [Hayes] 58 years, 355 days: Thomas R. Marshall [Wilson] 59 years, 189 days: Charles G. Dawes [Coolidge] 59 years, 335 days: Dick Cheney [G.W. Bush] 60 years, 145 days: Gerald Ford [Nixon's 2nd VP] 60 years, 257 days: Harry S. Truman [FDR's 3rd VP] 61 years, 16 days: Henry Wilson [Grant's 2nd VP] 64 years, 102 days: John Nance Garner {FDR's 1st VP] 64 years, 292 days: Levi P. Morton [B. Harrison] 65 years, 178 days: Thomas A. Hendricks [Cleveland's 1st VP] 65 years, 221 days: George Clinton [Jefferson's 2nd/Madison's 1st] 66 years, 61 days: Joe Biden [Obama] 66 years, 165 days: Nelson Rockefeller [Ford] 66 years, 331 days: William R.D. King [Pierce] 68 years, 230 days: Elbridge Gerry [Madison's 2nd VP] 69 years, 38 days: Charles Curtis [Hoover] 71 years, 57 days: Alben W. Barkley [Truman]

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Day 17: Schuyler Colfax

In 1854, while in Congress, Schuyler Colfax helped create the Republican party!

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It actually looks like Lincoln and that might be who it is and he was a VP for the first 4 years and it's kind of what I'm saying and someone's been saying it the whole time that Mom is like a little monster now but her pain her brain is in trouble and mine is too and the max like that kind of thing and the second guy is actually Trump and the way I look at it is I don't think that's going to happen nobody has confidence that he's going to cover or even be here

Ken

That's a solid yes from his camp and he could run he has a character it looks a little bit like Grant and no not like the KFC guy thank you though he says remember three year old body and yeah you know what 56 means and that's ridiculous you weigh 256 lb to do that on purpose he says no I'm eating like crazy cuz I lost the 4 lb now that's ridiculous it says it's really weird did he really has an experience it this much being overpowered and I really have seen him do miraculous things all his life he's not beating this Trump guy up because he's pushing down and he's saying get off me the idiot is so dumb somebody and as his mom I would say that's gross pressure behavior Gerard Chase or are you just going to continue to be consumed by fire he says no correct yours so I guess this is on and that would work for me I do thank you for supporting me and Ken too I looked it up and it looks like he might have been as a VP and he says no so he might do that that would be a letdown and upsetting and they're kind of together but against each other and he's against Trump but not really 100%, but they lead a war against Trump that's what happened in these civil war Lincoln and general Ulysses S Grant were fighting against Trump whose character was later seen as Nathan Nathaniel Hawthorne it was during the civil war that he was that person and he was riding the war and they found out he was doing it and it caught up with him and he got severely beaten I have people got beat down in he has these clothes that are pretty much close to him and they're all dumb I do see what this is it's a different ticket so I will have to reconsider my choice for vice president

Kammilla

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