Speaker of the House three times between 1854 and 1869, before his involvement in electoral politics, he edited a major Whig newspaper from his home in South Bend, Indiana.  
Speaker of the House three times between 1854 and 1869, before his involvement in electoral politics, he edited a major Whig newspaper from his home in South Bend, Indiana.  After becoming a Republican, he rose to his highest office and endured his greatest disgrace, the Cr?it Mobilier scandal.  FTP, name the man not renominated as Vice-President under Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.
Speaker of the House three times between 1854 and 1869, before his involvement in electoral politics, he edited a major Whig newspaper from his home in South Bend, Indiana.  
Schuyler Colfax