Henry Wilson
Vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875 · United States · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1812 to 1875 · aged 63
Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery.
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Henry Wilson's shoeshop in Natick, Massachusetts
Henry Wilson's Natick home.
Abolitionist and Free Soil Party leaders Charles Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley, and Henry Wilson.
U.S. Senator Henry Wilson, photograph by Mathew Brady
Preston Brooks challenged Wilson to a duel in 1856.
In 1858, Wilson was challenged to a duel by California Democratic Senator William M. Gwin.
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Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of "Slave Power", the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.
