TR Stockdale

TR Stockdale

Thomas Ringland Stockdale (born March 28, 1828 in West Union Church , Greene County , Pennsylvania , † January 8, 1899 in Summit , Mississippi ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

TR Stockdale attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg until 1856 . In 1857 he moved to Pike County, Mississippi, where he worked as a teacher. He also studied law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford until 1859 . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in Woodville . During the Civil War Stockdale rose in the army of the Confederate States of up to major.

After the war, he continued his legal career as a lawyer at Summit. Politically, Stockdale joined the Democratic Party . In 1868 he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York . In the congressional elections of 1886 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth district of Mississippi , where he replaced Henry Smith Van Eaton on March 4, 1887 . After three re-elections, Stockdale was able to complete a total of four terms in Congress by March 3, 1895 . For the elections in 1894 he was no longer nominated by his party.

After serving in Congress, Stockdale was appointed to the Supreme Court of Mississippi as a judge on December 1, 1896 . He died on January 8, 1899 in Summit and was buried there.

Web links

• TR Stockdale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• TR Stockdale in the database of Find a Grave (English)