Thomas Andrew Hendricks – Great American Biographies

Thomas Andrew Hendricks - Great American Biographies

Popular among both Democrats and Republicans, an economic conservative and a charismatic speaker Thomas Andrews Hendricks, the 21st Vice President of the United States was born on September 7th, 1819 in Muskingum County, Ohio. At the age on only one, Hendricks parents moved the family closer to Indiana to live nearby several of his father’s relatives. In 1841, Hendricks started his collegiate career attending Hanover College in Indiana and later went on to Chambersburg to study law.