토머스 A. 헨드릭스

소개

토머스 앤드루스 헨드릭스(영어: Thomas Andrews Hendricks, 1819년 9월 7일 ~ 1885년 11월 25일)는 미국의 민주당 정치인으로 인디애나주의 연방 하원, 연방 상원, 지사를 지냈으며, 그로버 클리블랜드 대통령 아래 1885년 3월 4일부터 11월 25일 사망할 때까지 8개월간 21대 부통령을 지냈다.

Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–1850) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. In addition, Hendricks served as commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1855–1859). Hendricks, a popular member of the Democratic Party, was a fiscal conservative. He defended the Democratic position in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era and voted against the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He also opposed Radical Reconstruction and President Andrew Johnson's removal from office following Johnson's impeachment in the U.S. House.