Crédit Mobilier scandal
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The Crédit Mobilier scandal was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portio
Dale Creek Crossing, completed in 1868 as part of the First transcontinental railroad
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Schuyler Colfax
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the U
Crédit Mobilier scandal
…Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, also Grant's current running mate for Vice President Vice President Schuyler Colfax Both houses of Congress were Republican controlled, and yet all of those named were Republicans except Bayard, a Democrat who was largely dropped from…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, 1869
Schuyler–Colfax House, ancestral home of Schuyler Colfax's grandparents William and Hester. Originally built in 1695.
Congressman Colfax (Indiana) 1859
Vice President Schuyler Colfax