Colfax, Schuyler, << SKY lur >> (1823-1885), served as vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873 during the first term of President Ulysses S. Grant. Colfax was an active leader of the Whig and Republican parties.
Colfax was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1855 and was speaker of the House from 1863 to 1869. He was an early supporter of voting rights for Black Americans. But his association in 1872 with the Liberal Republican Party, which opposed Grant, kept him out of the vice presidency during Grant’s second term. Colfax was born on March 23, 1823, in New York City. He died on Jan. 13, 1885.
