After becoming a Republican, he rose to his highest office and endured his greatest disgrace, the Cr?it Mobilier scandal.  
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