Biography

Thomas R. Marshall was born on March 14, 1854 in North Manchester, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 26 (1915) and Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 29 (1915). He died on June 1, 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Was the first Vice President to preside over cabinet meetings in the absence of the President when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke 1919. Marshall resisted calls for him to name himself Acting President under the Articles of Succession, even though he could have legally done so on the basis that Wilson's stroke had prevented him from carrying out his duties as President.

Vice President of the United States (1913-1921.)

Was the first Vice President (since Daniel Tompkins) in nearly one hundred years to serve two consecutive terms under the same President.

Governor of Indiana (1909-1913).

He adopted a child (named Clarence Ignatius Morrison) during his Vice-Presidency. The child died from acidosis at age 3 in 1920.

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.

"Once there were two brothers, one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice President, and neither of them was heard from again" - commenting on the obscurity of the office of Vice President.

"Indiana is the mother of Vice Presidents, home of more second-class men than any other state." - his reaction to learning he had just been nominated as the candidate for Vice president by the Democratic Party.