Thomas Cale

Thomas Cale (born September 17, 1848 in Underhill , Chittenden County , Vermont , † February 3, 1941 in Fond du Lac , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the Alaska Territory in the US House of Representatives as a delegate .

Career

Thomas Cale attended Bell Academy after primary school . In 1866 he briefly moved to Fort Edward , Washington County, New York State . From 1867 to 1868 he worked as a school teacher in his home in Vermont. In 1869 he moved to Wisconsin, where he taught in the Fond du Lac County at various schools as a teacher. In addition, he was temporarily involved in agriculture. From 1884 to 1886 he served on the county council of Fond du Lac County. There he was deputy sheriff from 1886 to 1887. After that he was himself sheriff in the district until 1890. He then traded in agricultural machinery before moving to Fairbanks , Alaska in 1898 at the time of the Klondike gold rush .

In Alaska he worked in the mining business. In the congressional elections of 1906, he was elected as an independent candidate to delegate to the US House of Representatives. There he replaced Frank Hinman Waskey on March 4, 1907 . Cale served a term in Congress . Since Alaska was not an official state of the USA at the time, Cale also had no voting rights in Congress. In 1908 he refused to run again. He then worked as a farmer in South Dakota between 1910 and 1915 . He then moved back to Wisconsin, where he worked as a farmer again from 1915 to 1920. In 1920 he retired in Fond du Lac. He died there in February 1941.

Web links

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

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