861

COLFAX, SCHUYLER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
COLFAX, SCHUYLER
<b>861. SCHUYLER COLFAX</b> (1832 - 1885) Speaker of the House during the Civil War and Grant's vice president whose career was ruined by his involvement in the "Credit Mobilier" scandal. Good content A.L.S. on a correspondence card, 1p. 12mo., South Bend, Oct. 18, 1879, in part: <i>"ÉThe Lincoln autographs are scarce and valuable, I do not know where to refer you for one except to your townsman [?] Mr. [Hannibal] Hamlin, who was V.P. with himÉ</i>". Very good.<b> $75-100</b>