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Union. Whichever, his unpopular stands led to the loss
of his bid to return for a second tem to the U.S. Senate.
21st Vice President of the United States, 1884-1885.
Sculpture stands in the Capitol Rotunda
Regardless of the judgments of history, there
are two events which illustrate that Thomas Andrew
Hendricks was a chip-off-the-old-block in spite of the
fact that he followed an Episcopalian theology rather
than that of a Presbyterian covenanter. He was
undoubtedly a man of principle with the courage to
follow his conscience, regardless of the consequences.