William Hayden English (August 27 1822 – February 7 1896) was an American congressman from Indiana and the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1880. English entered politics at a young age becoming a part of Jesse D. Bright’s conservative faction of the Indiana Democratic Party. After a few years in the federal bureaucracy in Washington beginning in 1845 he returned to Indiana and participated in the state constitutional convention of 1850.
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