Thomas Banks Cabaniss

Thomas Banks Cabaniss

Thomas Banks Cabaniss (born August 31, 1835 in Forsyth , Monroe County , Georgia , †  August 14, 1915 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Cabaniss was a cousin of Thomas Chipman McRae (1851-1929), who was between 1885 and 1903 Congressman for the state of Arkansas . He attended private schools and Penfield College . He then studied until 1853 at the University of Georgia in Athens . After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1861. During the Civil War Cabaniss served in the army of the Confederacy . After the war he returned to Forsyth, where he practiced as a lawyer.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1865 and 1867 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . Then he was until 1873 first deputy and then actual administration chief of the State Senate ( Secretary of the State Senate ). He then worked as a prosecutor in the judicial district of Flint until 1877. From 1878 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1886 Cabaniss was a member of the Georgia Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded James Henderson Blount on March 4, 1893 . Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1894, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1895 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thomas Cabaniss became a member of the Dawes Commission, which was supposed to pacify Indian territory . In 1910 he was elected mayor of his hometown Forsyth. In 1913 and 1914 he worked as a judge at the local court. He died in Forsyth on August 14, 1915.

Web links

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

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