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(1823-1885) Of Indiana, Vice-President. In 1844 he made campaign speeches for Clay. In 1845 he established the St. Joseph Valley Register which became a very influential Whig journal. He was secretary of the national Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852 and was in Congress as a Republican from 1855 to 1869. He was Speaker of the House from 1863 to 1869, and Vice-President from 1869 to 1873, but failed to obtain a renomination for the next term. He was charged, probably unjustly, with complicity in the " Credit Mobilier " scandal of 1873.