Govenor Thomas Hendricks - Indianapolis, Indiana
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N 39° 46.054 W 086° 09.730
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This Governor became Vice President, dying the same year in office.
Waymark Code: WM71AK
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/17/2009
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Three plaques on the monument state the following facts on the former Governor and Vice President:
Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Vice President of the United States
With Democrat President Grover Cleveland, 1885
Born September 7, 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio
Died November 25, 1885, Indianapolis, Buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
Represented Shelby County: Indiana House of Representatives, 1848-59
Delegate, State Constitutional Convention, 1850-51
Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1851-55
Commissioner, U.S. General Land Office, Washington D.C., 1855-59
United States Senator from Indiana, 1863-69
Governor of Indiana, 1873-77
Hendricks won the popular vote as Vice Presidential Canidate with Samuel J. Tilden, but lost contested electoral votes awarded to Rutherford B. Hays, 1876
Nephew of William Hendricks, Governor of Indiana, 1821-25
Moved to Shelby County Indiana, 1822
Graduated, Hanover College, 1841
Married Eliza C. Morgan, 1845
Lifelong opponent of Republican Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s Civil War Governor and Post-war United States Senator, whose statue stands on the east side of the Capitol
Sculpted by Richard H. Park
Erected in 1890, This statue faces toward Shelbyville
This plaque was mounted in October, 1995,
By Governor Evan Bayh,
Lt. Governor Frank O’Bannon
And the Indiana Department of Administration
Text compiled by the State Archives
Indiana Commission on Public Records
F. Gerald Handfield, Jr., and Justin E. Walsh
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