John Mellen Thurston

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John Mellen Thurston

John Mellen Thurston (born August 21, 1847 in Montpelier , Vermont , † August 9, 1916 in Omaha , Nebraska ) was an American lawyer and US Senator from Nebraska.

Early years

In 1854 John M. Thurston moved with his family to Madison , Wisconsin and from there two years later to Beaver Dam . Thurston attended public schools there. At seventeen he moved to Chicago, where he worked briefly as a truck driver for a food company. But only a year later he returned to Beaver Dam and attended the Wayland Academy, which he graduated in 1867. After studying law for two years in a law firm, he was admitted to the bar in 1869 and began working in Omaha. In 1872 he married Mrs. Martha Poland; she died on March 14, 1898. He married his second wife Lola Pearman in 1900.

Political rise

Between 1872 and 1874 he was a city councilor and city ​​attorney for the following three years . From 1875 to 1877 he was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives . He then took on the role of legal advisor to the Union Pacific Railroad as assistant attorney and was appointed general solicitor in 1888. After an initially unsuccessful candidacy for Senator in 1893, Thurston resigned from the Union Pacific Railroad in 1895 and was a Republican Senator in Washington, DC during his term in office from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1901 of the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs . Although he was not put up for re-election, he lived in Washington until 1915, where he was a member of the commission from April 1901 that was responsible for planning the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition . In 1915 Thurston returned to Omaha.

Old age and death

He worked for the law firm Thurston, Crow & Morrison until shortly before his death on August 9, 1916. John Mellen Thurston died of heat damage after a four-week illness .

Thurston County in Nebraska was named after him in his honor .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times, March 15, 1898
  2. ^ New York Times, November 14, 1899
  3. ^ New York Times, April 24, 1901
  4. ^ New York Times, August 10, 1916

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personal data
SURNAME Thurston, John Mellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party Politician, Senator for Nebraska State
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpelier (Vermont)
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1916
Place of death Omaha , Nebraska