Hendricks, Thomas Andrews (1819-1885), was vice president of the United States in 1885 under President Grover Cleveland. Hendricks served as vice president for only eight months before he died in office on Nov. 25, 1885. He had sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868, 1876, 1880, and 1884. Although not a nominee in 1872, he received 42 electoral votes in that election because Horace Greeley, the Democratic nominee, died before the Electoral College met.
Hendricks was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for vice president in 1876 before winning with Cleveland in 1884. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855 and in the U.S. Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was elected governor of Indiana in 1872, and he held the office from 1873 to 1877.
Hendricks was born on Sept. 7, 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio. He served in both houses of the Indiana state legislature. He was called a Greenback Democrat because he favored issuing more greenbacks (paper money).
