Thomas Charles Power
Thomas Charles Power (born May 22, 1839 in Dubuque , Iowa , † February 16, 1923 in Helena , Montana ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) and one of the first two US Senators for the state of Montana.
Thomas Power attended public schools in Iowa and then Sinsinawa College in Wisconsin , where he earned an engineering degree . As a result he went to this profession; he also taught as a teacher. In 1860 he was employed as a surveyor in the Dakota Territory before he worked as a trader in the area along the Missouri between 1861 and 1867 . He was also president of a steamship company.
After settling in the Montana Territory , Power lived first in Fort Benton and then in Helena. There he was interested in trade and banking before turning to politics. In 1883 he took part in the first constitutional convention of Montana; six years later, he ran for the office of first governor in the new state, but lost just under 49:51 percent of the vote against the Democrat Joseph Toole . In 1890 he was elected to the US Senate alongside Wilbur F. Sanders for Montana, where he held his mandate from January 2, 1890 to March 3, 1895. He decided not to run again.
Power then returned to Montana. There he went back to his business activities. Among other things, he ran the trading company T. C. Power and Bro , which was one of the leading companies in this sector in the northwestern United States and western Canada . He died in Helena in 1923 and was buried in the Resurrection Cemetery there. The town of Power in Teton County was named after Thomas Power.
Web links
- Thomas Charles Power in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- Thomas Charles Power in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Power, Thomas Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Dubuque , Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1923 |
| Place of death | Helena , Montana |