Thomas Carbery

Thomas Carbery (born June 26, 1791 -  May 23, 1863 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1822 and 1824 he was Mayor of Washington City.

Career

The sources on Thomas Carbery are not very productive. He worked in the banking industry and became president of the National Metropolitan Bank , one of the largest banks in what was then Washington. This bank was used to settle the salaries of the United States Army during the British-American War . As a captain, Carbery was himself a member of the army at times. His political party affiliation is not known.

In 1822 Carbery was elected mayor of the federal capital. He held this office between June 14, 1822 and June 14, 1824. The election was so close that the defeated candidate Roger C. Weightman , who later also became mayor of Washington, sued unsuccessfully for two years against the result. In 1824 Carbery ran again for the office of mayor, this time against the popular Samuel Nicholas Smallwood , who had also been his predecessor. He was defeated by Smallwood, who died three months later. Then Weightman was elected as his successor. In 1826, Carbery and Weightman met again in the mayoral election of Washington. Weightman was able to prevail. It is also worth noting that until 1871 the mayor of Washington did not administer the entire District of Columbia . The then independent city of Georgetown provided its own mayor until 1871.

Thomas Carbery was a member of the Washington National Monument Society , which organized the planning for the Washington Monument . When work began on the construction of this monument in 1848, he became chairman of the building committee. From 1844 until his death on May 23, 1863, Carbery was Justice of the Peace in what was then Washington County, one of the five counties of the District of Columbia.

Web links

• Thomas Carbery in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard

predecessor	Office	successor
Samuel Nicholas Smallwood	Mayor of Washington 1822–1824	Samuel Nicholas Smallwood