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Henry Wilson
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vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875
OverviewAI-generated
Henry Wilson (1812–1875) was an American politician, historian, military officer, and editor. Born Jeremiah Jones Colbath in Farmington, he served as a United States senator and Vice President of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, Wilson participated in the American Civil War. He died of natural causes in Washington, D.C.
Wilson was affiliated with Congregational churches and spoke English. His political views included beliefs in the equality of rights for all men regardless of race. He is recognized in collections of U.S. Vice Presidents and Senators.
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1810
- Works
- 94
Top works
- The History of Prince Lee Boo
- Lectures on the Theory and Practice of the Ophthalmoscope
- Leybourn's Dialling improv'd, or, The whole art perform'd ...
- Campaign Of 1860
- With the Flag to Pretoria
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934-06-09
- Active to
- 1984-01-21
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 643
- Total plays
- 1,730
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,228x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,461x
- The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis
· 1998 · cited 19,805x
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Quotes
- “I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.”
- “The natural equality of all men I believe in, as far as rights are concerned.”
- “I believe in the equality of rights of all mankind.”
- “Upon the question simply of equality of rights, I believe in the equality of all men of every race, blood, and kindred.”
- “When the Union needs my poor support, in peace or in war, I induge the hope that I shall not fail in the performance of any duty which may be required me. At any rate, I hope not to fall behind that class of men who are, on all occasions, blurting their devotion to the Union into the unwilling ears of the country.”
- “The idea which pervades our Constitution; that all men of every race are equal before the laws.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) 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. 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.
Originally a Whig, Wilson was a founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848. He served as the party chairman before and during the 1852 presidential election. Wilson worked diligently to build an anti-slavery coalition, which came to include the Free Soil Party, anti-slavery Democrats, New York Barnburners, the Liberty Party, anti-slavery members of the Know Nothings, and anti-slavery Whigs (called Conscience Whigs). When the Free Soil party dissolved in the mid-1850s, Wilson joined the Republican Party, which he helped found, and which was organized largely in line with the anti-slavery coalition he had nurtured in the 1840s and 1850s.
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