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Vice President of the United States with Democrat President Grover Cleveland, 1885Born September 7, 1819, near Zanesville, OhioDied November 25, 1885, Indianapolis, buried at Crown Hill CemeteryRepresented Shelby County: Indiana House of Representatives, 1848-49Delegate, State Constitutional Convention, 1850-51Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1851-55Commissioner, U>S> General Land Office, Washington, D.C., 1855-59United States Senator from Indiana, 1863-69Governor of Indiana, 1853-77Plaque 2
Henricks won the popular vote as vice presidential candidatewith Samuel J. Tilden, but lost contested electoral votesawarded to Rutherford
B. Hayes, 1876Nephew of William Hendricks, Governor of Indiana, 1821-25Moved to Shelby County Indiana, 1822Graduated, Hanover College, 1841Married Eliza C. Morgan, 1845Lifelong 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 Capitolsculpted by Richard H. Parkerected in 1890, this statue faces toward
ShelbyvillePlaque 3
This plaque was mounted in October, 1995by Governor Evan Bayh,Lt. Governor Frank O'Brannonand the Indiana Department
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AdministrationText compiled by the State ArchivesIndiana Commission on Public RecordsF. Gerald Handfield, Jr., and Justin E. Walsh
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