Henry F. Thomas

Henry F. Thomas

Henry Franklin Thomas (born December 17, 1843 in Tompkins , Jackson County , Michigan , †  April 16, 1912 in Allegan , Michigan) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Thomas attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1859 Albion College . During the Civil War he served in a Michigan cavalry unit between 1862 and 1865 , where he made it to lieutenant. After the war he continued his education at the Ypsilanti Normal School . After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his license as a doctor in 1868, he began to practice in Constantine in his new profession. In 1870 he moved to Allegan. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

Thomas served in the Michigan House of Representatives in 1873 and 1874 ; from 1875 to 1876 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James G. Blaine was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1892 Thomas was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Julius C. Burrows on March 4, 1893 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . From 1895 he was chairman of the Committee for the Control of Expenditures of the Navy Ministry.

In 1896 Thomas was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. Between 1907 and 1908 he was a doctor at the Michigan Veterans Home; from 1909 to 1910 he sat on the pardons committee of his state. Henry Thomas died in Allegan on April 16, 1912 and was buried in Ann Arbor.

Web links

• Henry F. Thomas in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry F. Thomas in the database of Find a Grave (English)