亨利·威尔逊，马萨诸塞州国会议员(1812-1875)
方:自由土壤;美国(不可知论者);反对;共和党人
威尔逊,亨利,马萨诸塞州参议员和美国副总统;1812年2月16日出生于新罕布什尔州法明顿的耶利米·琼斯·科尔巴斯;在农场工作;就读于普通学校;1833年，立法机关将他的名字合法地改为亨利·威尔逊;搬到了马萨诸塞州的纳蒂克。1833年，他来到美国，学会了鞋匠的手艺;曾短期就读于斯特拉福德、沃尔夫斯伯勒和康科德学院;在马萨诸塞州纳蒂克的一所学校任教。后来他在那里从事制鞋业; member of the State legislature between 1841 and 1852; owner and editor of the Boston Republican 1848-1851; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1853; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1853; elected in 1855 to the United States Senate by a coalition of Free Soilers, Americans, and Democrats to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward Everett; reelected as a Republican in 1859, 1865, and 1871, and served from January 31, 1855, to March 3, 1873, when he resigned to become Vice President; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); in 1861 he raised and commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President Ulysses Grant and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., November 22, 1875; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, November 25-26, 1875; interment in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今
