Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh

Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh

Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (born July 3, 1837 in New Market , Jefferson County , Tennessee , †  September 19, 1890 in Knoxville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1879 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Thornburgh first attended Holston College in his native New Market. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1861, he began to work in Jefferson County in his new profession. During the Civil War Thornburgh served as a cavalryman in the Union Army , in which he rose to lieutenant colonel. After the war he continued his work as a lawyer. From 1867 he lived in Knoxville. Between 1866 and 1872 he was a district attorney in the Tennessee Third Judicial District. In 1872, Thornburgh acted as federal commissioner for the world exhibition in Vienna .

Politically, Thornburgh was a member of the Republican Party . In the years 1872, 1876 and 1880 he took part as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Ulysses S. Grant , Rutherford B. Hayes and finally James A. Garfield were nominated as presidential candidates. In the congressional election of 1872 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Horace Maynard on March 4, 1873 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1879 .

In 1878 Jacob Thornburgh renounced another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died in Knoxville on September 19, 1890.

Web links

• Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh in the database of Find a Grave (English)