Thomas Bowles Shannon

Thomas Bowles Shannon

Thomas Bowles Shannon (born September 21, 1827 in Westmoreland County , Pennsylvania , †  February 21, 1897 in San Francisco , California ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Shannon attended public schools in his home country. He moved to Illinois in 1844 and to California during the gold rush in 1849 , where he worked in commerce. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the California State Assembly in 1859, 1860, and 1862 . In the congressional elections of 1862 Shannon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of his state , where he succeeded Frederick Low on March 4, 1865 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1864, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1865 . This was shaped by the events of the civil war . In Congress, Shannon chaired the Home Office's Expenditure Control Committee.

Between 1865 and 1869 he served as director of the San Francisco Port Authority. After that, in 1871 and 1872, he was once again a member of the Californian state parliament and at times its speaker . From 1872 to 1880 Thomas Shannon was in charge of customs in the Port of San Francisco. Then he worked again in the trade. He died in San Francisco on February 21, 1897.

Web links

• Thomas Bowles Shannon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Bowles Shannon in the database of Find a Grave (English)