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<p>William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney. He served as a United States representative from New York from 1861 to 1863 and 1869 to 1877, and the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.</p>
<p>Born in Malone, New York, Wheeler pursued a legal career after attending the University of Vermont. After serving in various local positions, he won election to the New York State Legislature. He served in Congress from 1861 to 1863 and from 1869 to 1877. He was widely respected for his integrity, and refused his salary increase after Congress passed an 1873 pay raise that he opposed.</p>
<p>After the 1876 Republican National Convention settled on Rutherford B. Hayes as the party's presidential nominee after seven ballots, the delegates nominated Wheeler for vice president. Nominated by Congressman Luke P. Poland, Wheeler surged into an early lead over Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Marshall Jewell, and Stewart L. Woodford to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. Wheeler was nominated because he was popular among his colleagues, having worked to avoid making enemies in Congress. In addition, as a resident of the populous Eastern state of New York, he provided geographical balance to the ticket, since Hayes was from the populous Midwest state of Ohio. The Republican ticket prevailed in the contentious 1876 presidential election, though they lost the popular vote. Though they had not known each other before the convention, Wheeler and Hayes got along amicably while in office. They chose not to seek second terms, and Wheeler returned to Malone, New York after the end of his term. He died in 1887, and was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Malone.</p>
William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney. He served as a United States representative from New York from 1861 to 1863 and 1869 to 1877, and the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
Born in Malone, New York, Wheeler pursued a legal career after attending the University of Vermont. After serving in various local positions, he won election to the New York State Legislature. He served in Congress from 1861 to 1863 and from 1869 to 1877. He was widely respected for his integrity, and refused his salary increase after Congress passed an 1873 pay raise that he opposed.
After the 1876 Republican National Convention settled on Rutherford B. Hayes as the party's presidential nominee after seven ballots, the delegates nominated Wheeler for vice president. Nominated by Congressman Luke P. Poland, Wheeler surged into an early lead over Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Marshall Jewell, and Stewart L. Woodford to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. Wheeler was nominated because he was popular among his colleagues, having worked to avoid making enemies in Congress. In addition, as a resident of the populous Eastern state of New York, he provided geographical balance to the ticket, since Hayes was from the populous Midwest state of Ohio. The Republican ticket prevailed in the contentious 1876 presidential election, though they lost the popular vote. Though they had not known each other before the convention, Wheeler and Hayes got along amicably while in office. They chose not to seek second terms, and Wheeler returned to Malone, New York after the end of his term. He died in 1887, and was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Malone.
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<p>William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney. He served as a United States representative from New York from 1861 to 1863 and 1869 to 1877, and the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.</p>
<p>Born in Malone, New York, Wheeler pursued a legal career after attending the University of Vermont. After serving in various local positions, he won election to the New York State Legislature. He served in Congress from 1861 to 1863 and from 1869 to 1877. He was widely respected for his integrity, and refused his salary increase after Congress passed an 1873 pay raise that he opposed.</p>
<p>After the 1876 Republican National Convention settled on Rutherford B. Hayes as the party's presidential nominee after seven ballots, the delegates nominated Wheeler for vice president. Nominated by Congressman Luke P. Poland, Wheeler surged into an early lead over Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Marshall Jewell, and Stewart L. Woodford to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. Wheeler was nominated because he was popular among his colleagues, having worked to avoid making enemies in Congress. In addition, as a resident of the populous Eastern state of New York, he provided geographical balance to the ticket, since Hayes was from the populous Midwest state of Ohio. The Republican ticket prevailed in the contentious 1876 presidential election, though they lost the popular vote. Though they had not known each other before the convention, Wheeler and Hayes got along amicably while in office. They chose not to seek second terms, and Wheeler returned to Malone, New York after the end of his term. He died in 1887, and was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Malone.</p>
Miller Center biography, William A. Wheeler, accessed July 27, 2020
<p>William Almon Wheeler was born on June 30, 1819, in Malone, New York, near the Canadian border. His father died when he was a young boy, leaving little money for his family, and William grew up relatively poor. He attended the University of Vermont for two years but had to drop out because of lack of funds. He then returned to New York and started teaching school, while studying law. In 1845, he was admitted to the bar, and that same year, he married Mary King. They did not have any children.</p>
<p>He began his political career with local positions such as town clerk and school commissioner. A member of the Whig Party, he became district attorney for Franklin County in 1846, a position he held for three years. In the 1850s, he was elected to the New York legislature, serving in both the house and senate. In the mid-1850s, he joined the Republican Party. He moved to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1861 and served just one term before deciding to return to New York. Wheeler often suffered from ill health and felt that working in the federal government was not good for his health.</p>
<p>In 1869, however, he chose to return to Washington, D.C., again as a representative from New York. He served in the House until he resigned to become vice president in 1877. Although Wheeler was considered an honest and conscientious politician, he did not receive national attention until 1874, when he was a member of the House Committee on Southern Affairs. The committee went to Louisiana to help resolve a disputed election for governor. The “Wheeler Compromise” reached an agreement between Democrats and Republicans to govern the state and prevent further violence in Louisiana.</p>
<p>As the presidential election of 1876 neared, the Republican Party needed candidates with clean reputations because the scandals of the Ulysses S. Grant administration had disenchanted the public. The party turned to Wheeler as vice president because of his honesty and impeccable character. During the disputed presidential election, he and Hayes laid low and did not campaign. Once in office, Wheeler had little influence in the administration, as was usual for the time, but he had unusually close personal relationships with President Hayes and his family.</p>
<p>Leaving office in 1881, Wheeler returned to New York and private life. He died on June 4, 1887.</p>
Wikipedia article, William A. Wheeler, accessed July 27, 2020
<p>William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney. He served as a United States representative from New York from 1861 to 1863 and 1869 to 1877, and the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.</p>
<p>Born in Malone, New York, Wheeler pursued a legal career after attending the University of Vermont. After serving in various local positions, he won election to the New York State Legislature. He served in Congress from 1861 to 1863 and from 1869 to 1877. He was widely respected for his integrity, and refused his salary increase after Congress passed an 1873 pay raise that he opposed.</p>
<p>After the 1876 Republican National Convention settled on Rutherford B. Hayes as the party's presidential nominee after seven ballots, the delegates nominated Wheeler for vice president. Nominated by Congressman Luke P. Poland, Wheeler surged into an early lead over Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Marshall Jewell, and Stewart L. Woodford to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. Wheeler was nominated because he was popular among his colleagues, having worked to avoid making enemies in Congress. In addition, as a resident of the populous Eastern state of New York, he provided geographical balance to the ticket, since Hayes was from the populous Midwest state of Ohio. The Republican ticket prevailed in the contentious 1876 presidential election, though they lost the popular vote. Though they had not known each other before the convention, Wheeler and Hayes got along amicably while in office. They chose not to seek second terms, and Wheeler returned to Malone, New York after the end of his term. He died in 1887, and was buried at Morningside Cemetery in Malone.</p>
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress biography, William Almon Wheeler, accessed July 27, 2020
WHEELER, WILLIAM ALMON, a Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United States; born in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., June 30, 1819; completed preparatory studies; attended the Franklin Academy at Malone and the University of Vermont at Burlington; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced in Malone, N.Y.; district attorney for Franklin County, N.Y., 1846-1849; member, State assembly 1850-1851; member, State senate 1858-1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); chair, Committee on Expenditures in the War Department (Thirty-seventh Congress); delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1867 and 1868; elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); chair, Committee on Commerce (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Forty-fifth Congress, having been nominated in 1876 as the Republican candidate for Vice President; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Rutherford Hayes in 1876; inaugurated in March 1877 and served until March 1881; retired from public life and active business pursuits because of ill health; died in Malone, N.Y., June 4, 1887; interment in Morningside Cemetery.
Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887. Letter, 1883.
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Letter, 1883.
Letter written by William A. Wheeler, Vice-President of the United States, 1877-1881, to a relative including comments on the importance of education for both men and women.
Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887. Letter, 1883.
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Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887
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Lewis Eller Asher autograph collection, 1757-1925.
Lewis Eller Asher autograph collection, 1757-1925.
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Lewis Eller Asher autograph collection, 1757-1925.
Engraved portraits and autograph letters and documents of all U.S. presidents from George Washington to William Howard Taft (except John Adams) and all vice presidents from Aaron Burr to Charles W. Fairbanks; and other autograph documents. Correspondents of the presidents include Richard K. Call, Isaac Shelby, and Littleton W. Tazewell.
Asher, Louis Eller, 1877-1948. Lewis Eller Asher autograph collection, 1757-1925.
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Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887
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Arthur H. Landis audiotape collection, 1963-1965, 1984.
Landis, Arthur H., 1917-1986. Arthur H. Landis audiotape collection, 1963-1965, 1984.
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Arthur H. Landis audiotape collection, 1963-1965, 1984.
Landis provided vets with a demo tape (ALBA A 66-038) that "gave the outline structure of the book and a detailed explanation of his desire to give adequate attention to all phases of the war which Americans participated in, from ambulance drivers to the commando zealots." Further, Landis stressed: "material for taping [should] be put in chronological order to avoid a time-consuming play-back. We suggest you at least make notes before making the tape. Oh yes, tape at a speed of 3-1/4." Members were told that they could use their own tape recorders, or that VALB would loan out both recorder and tapes. The tapes were not professionally recorded, nor were the sessions conducted as conventional oral histories. Consequently, the sound quality varies tape to tape, and veterans at times do not identify themselves or provide many autobiographical details. The focus is on their day-by-day participation in the war. An additional box of 1/4 in. reel-to-reel tapes at the end of the collection (ALBA A 66-147 through ALBA A 66-163) contains miscellaneous reels not associated with the book project, several of which feature German singer Bart Van der Schelling singing songs of the Spanish Civil War. Van der Schelling is pictured with Paul Robeson and Arthur Landis, among others, in a photograph in the Arthur H. Landis Photo Collection.
Hayes and Wheeler Battalion. Boston, Ward 10. Hayes and Wheeler Battalion, Ward 10, Boston, Campaign of 1876.
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Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887
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Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009. Certificates of Electors of the Electoral College for Massachusetts, 1840 - 1964
Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009. Certificates of Electors of the Electoral College for Massachusetts, 1840 - 1964
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Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009. Certificates of Electors of the Electoral College for Massachusetts, 1840 - 1964
This series consists of certificate sets of the vote of the presidential electors of Massachusetts delivered to the judge or chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The records include certificates of appointment of electors (or certificates of ascertainment) issued by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; certificates of election of substitute electors to fill vacancies; and certificates of vote for President and Vice President issued by the electors during their meeting at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
Transcribed newspaper articles about early settlers in Franklin County and hunting and fishing in the Adirondacks; transcribed letters from Jonathan H. Wells, Civil War soldier, and other letters pertaining to the War of 1812; a transcribed contract and letters concerning the supplying of venison to G.W. Hale; a lengthy obituary of William A. Wheeler clipped from the MALONE PALLADIUM; and a newspaper clipping about a traveler's experiences at Chateaugay Lake in 1884.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Olin D. Wheeler papers, 1870-1923.
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Olin D. Wheeler papers, 1870-1923.
Newspaper clippings, sepia photos, speeches, and miscellany collected by Wheeler, who was the topographer with Major John W. Powell's expedition to survey the Colorado River, and a resident of St. Paul (Minn.) after 1882. Most are in the form of a scrapbook.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Olin D. Wheeler papers, 1870-1923.
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Papers, 1876.
Hayes and Wheeler Club (Dodge County, Wis.). Papers, 1876.
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Papers, 1876.
Statement signed by voters of Dodge County, supporting the Presidential ticket of Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler and agreeing to campaign for them in the local area.
Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887. Letter : to M.C. Meigs, 1861 July 15.
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Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887
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Miscellaneous manuscripts: M-Z, 1789-1981.
Owen D. Young Library. Special Collections. Miscellaneous manuscripts: M-Z, 1789-1981.
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Miscellaneous manuscripts: M-Z, 1789-1981.
Letters, reports, circulars, invitations, articles, programs, clippings, speeches, pamphlets, deeds, autograph albums, catalogs, diaries, appointments, autographs, legal papers and wills, field books, and other miscellaneous items, primarily of St. Lawrence County people. Of note are two letters of Alexander Macomb concerning land matters, 1789-1814; letters of Cornelius Masten concerning politics, 1827-1846; deed and letters of Gouverneur Morris concerning travels and land transactions, 1795-1843; letters of Eliza Noble concerning teaching school in Baldwinsville and Massena, traveling to the midwest, and local news in Grand Chute, Wis., 1845-1868; account book, diary, and letters of William Noble, Jr., 1828-1838; letters and notes by Elisabeth Peabody concerning her writing and the school run by Sarah Winnemuuca, 1842-1886; letters of William A. Poste about politics and Garfield's election, 1880-1883; Civil War letters of Orson Leroy Reynolds; letters and receipts for land of Gerrit Smith, 1839-1843; family letters, poems, and clippings, of William Wentworth Story, 1822-1894; notes and letters of William A. Wheeler about political appointments, military issues, and St. Regis Indians, 1830-1880; and letters of Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff concerning paper industry, game constable James Lamphere, the Adirondacks, Senate bills and committees, and the pardon of Cornelius Doherty, 1900-1901.
Owen D. Young Library. Special Collections. Miscellaneous manuscripts: M-Z, 1789-1981.
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Wheeler, William A. (William Almon), 1819-1887
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Republican Party (Ky.) campaign ephemera 1876.
Republican Party (Ky.). Republican Party (Ky.) campaign ephemera 1876.
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Republican Party (Ky.) campaign ephemera 1876.
Indiana Republican Party ticket from the 1876 presidential campaign. Includes names of candidates for president, vice-president, electors for the state at large and district electors.
His letter include two written as agent of the St. Regis Indians discussing annuities, hostility between Catholic and Protestant Indians, and charges against Wheeler by the chiefs, 1849-1850. Another letter discusses politics, 1864; and a mortgage discharge.
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