Schuyler Colfax (March 23, 1823–January 13, 1885) was a Representative from Indiana and the 17th Vice President of the United States.

Colfax was born in New York City. In 1836 he moved with his parents to New Carlisle, Indiana. He was appointed deputy auditor of St. Joseph County, Indiana in 1841. He became a legislative correspondent for the Indiana State Journal. He purchased an interest in the South Bend Free Press and changed its name in 1845 to the St. Joseph Valley Register, the Whig organ of northern Indiana.

Colfax was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850 and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-second Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1869). He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1863. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868, having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.

In 1868 he was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, inaugurated March 4, 1869, served until March 3, 1873. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872, owing to charges of corruption in connection with the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal.

He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota. He was interred in the City Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana.

Preceded by: Galusha A. Grow	Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives 1863–1869	Succeeded by: Theodore Medad Pomeroy
Preceded by: Andrew Johnson	Republican Party Vice Presidential candidate 1868 (won)	Succeeded by: Henry Wilson
Preceded by: Andrew Johnson	Vice President of the United States 1869–1873	Succeeded by: Henry Wilson