MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THOMAS A. HENDRICKS (VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES), Washington D.C., Government Printing Office, 1886.  1^st ed. brown cloth hardcover w/gilt titling to front board, front and rear board are both also ornately blind-stamped, 8vo (10.375 x 7”), Good +, n.a., 168 pp.  Overall light wear to all extremities of binding, text moderately foxed, soiled and stained sporadically throughout.

A series of eulogies and speeches given in congress in memoriam and honor of the recently departed vice-president.   

Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) 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 to November 1885 during the term of Grover Cleveland.  Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–55) and the U.S. Senate (1863–69).