Schuyler Colfax, Jr. -LRB- ; March 23, 1823 -- January 13, 1885 -RRB- was a United States Representative from Indiana -LRB- 1855-1869 -RRB-, Speaker of the House of Representatives -LRB- 1863-1869 -RRB-, and the 17th Vice President of the United States -LRB- 1869-1873 -RRB-.
Schuyler -LRB- prononce '' Sky-ler '' -RRB- Colfax, Jr. -LRB- March 23, 1823 â '' January 13, 1885 was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the seventeenth Vice President of the United States.