Hendricks, Francis
merchant, banker, state senator, was born Nov. 23, 1834, in Kingston, N. Y. He was elected to the state senate in 1886 and served continuously in that body for six years. a HENDRICKS, THOMAS ANDREWS, vice president of the United States, was born Sept. 7, 1819, in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1848 he was chosen to the Indiana state legislature; declined a re-election; and was an active member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1850. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855; and was appointed in 1855 commissioner of the general land office. He was subsequently elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1863 and ending in 1869.
In 1872 he received a majority of the democratic votes for the office of president ident of the United States; in 1876 was an unsuccessful candidate for vicean unsuccessful candidate for vicepresident of the United States; and in 1884 was elected vice-president of the United States. He died Nov. 25, 1885, in Indianapolis , Ind.
HENDRICKS, WILLIAM, United States senator, was born in 1783 governor, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was the first and sole representative of Indiana in congress from 1816 to 1822. He was governor of the state from 1822 to 1825, when he was elected a member of the United States senate, and served until 1837. He died May 16, 1850, in Madison, Ind.
HENDRICKSON, CHARLES ELVIN, lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 8, 1843 , in New Egypt, N. J. In 1868 he was elected a member of the New Jersey state legislature; was prosecutor of the pleas of Burlington county during 1870-90; and in 1896 was appointed special judge of the court of errors and appeals of New Jersey for term expiring in 1902.