Jesse B. Thomas

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Jesse B. Thomas

Jesse Burgess Thomas (* 1777 in Shepherdstown , Jefferson County , Virginia (now West Virginia ), †  May 2, 1853 in Mount Vernon , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Democratic Republican Party . He was one of the first two US Senators for the state of Illinois .

Jesse Thomas studied in Mason County in Kentucky the law and worked there until 1803 as a county clerk in the administration. He then moved north to Lawrenceburg , Indiana , where he worked as an attorney and in 1805 became the Territory's Assistant Attorney General . In the same year he moved into the territorial parliament as a member and was its speaker until 1808 .

After the resignation of Benjamin Parke , who represented the territory as a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives , Thomas was elected to succeed him in Washington, DC . He performed his mandate from October 22, 1808 to March 3, 1809. He then lived in Kaskaskia in the Illinois Territory , which split from the Indiana Territory that year, and later in Cahokia and Edwardsville .

In this territory Thomas was district judge for the north-western district from 1809 to 1818. He then stood before the constitutional convention for the future state of Illinois and was elected in 1818 after joining the Union on the side of Ninian Edwards as one of the first two US Senators from Illinois. He was instrumental in the constitution of the Missouri Compromise . After beginning his second term in 1823, he belonged to the Crawford Republicans , the faction led by William Harris Crawford of the fragmenting Democratic Republicans ; later he became a follower of John Quincy Adams .

Jesse Thomas waived the candidacy for a third term and resigned on March 3, 1829 from the Senate, in which he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Public Lands . He ended his political career and moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he died by suicide on May 2, 1853 .

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SURNAME Thomas, Jesse B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas, Jesse Burgess (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Shepherdstown , Jefferson County , Virginia (now West Virginia )
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1853
Place of death Mount Vernon , Ohio