Thomas Hardeman

Thomas Hardeman

Thomas Hardeman Jr. (born January 12, 1825 in Eatonton , Georgia , †  March 6, 1891 in Macon , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 and again from 1883 to 1885 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Hardeman attended Emory College until 1845 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1847, he only worked for a very short time in this profession. Instead, he worked in commission trading. At the same time he began a political career. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1853, 1855, and 1857 . It was then that he became a member of the short-lived Opposition Party .

In the congressional election of 1858 Hardeman was elected as their candidate in the third constituency of Georgia to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Robert Pleasant Trippe on March 4, 1859 . The next legislative period in Congress was determined by the discussions in the immediate run-up to the civil war . Before the regular end of this term on March 3, 1861, Hardeman resigned his mandate on January 23, 1861, because the state of Georgia had decided to leave the Union.

During the ensuing civil war Hardeman served in various capacities in the army of the Confederacy . By the end of the war he rose to the rank of colonel. Nevertheless, he was also politically active during the war. In the years 1863 and 1864 he was again a member of parliament and also a speaker in the Georgia House of Representatives. He exercised the same function again in 1874. Hardeman had now joined the Democratic Party . In 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore and president of the regional party convention in Georgia. He was also party chairman in his home state for four years.

In the congressional election of 1882 , Hardeman was re-elected to Congress in the then newly created tenth district of Georgia. There he completed a further legislative period between March 4, 1883 and March 3, 1885, during which he was chairman of the committee to control the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, Thomas Hardeman withdrew from politics. He died in Macon on March 6, 1891.

Web links

• Thomas Hardeman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Hardeman in the database of Find a Grave (English)