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Henry Wilson
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vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875
Henry Wilson was the Vice President of the United States during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875. He holds historical significance as a political figure from the Reconstruction era following the Civil War.
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Vinony files it under 1812 births, 1872 United States vice-presidential candidates and 1875 deaths.
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- Died
- 1810
- Works
- 94
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- Wilson
- Official name
- Henry Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Farmington
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- writer
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Congregational churches
- Conflict
- American Civil War
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- Henry Wilson, US Vice President, photo portrait seated.jpg
- Work location
- Boston
- Residence
- Massachusetts
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- Henry Wilson
- date of birth
- 1812-02-16
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- 1875-11-22
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- Jeremiah Jones Colbath
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- Henry Wilson
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- stroke
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- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of "Slave Power", the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.
Originally a Whig, Wilson was a founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848. He served as the party chairman before and during the 1852 presidential election. Wilson worked diligently to build an anti-slavery coalition, which came to include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Know Nothings, and anti-slavery Whigs (called Conscience Whigs). When the Free Soil party dissolved in the mid-1850s, Wilson joined the Republican Party, which he helped found, and which was organized largely in line with the anti-slavery coalition he had nurtured in the 1840s and 1850s.
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