Thomas Child Junior

Thomas Child junior (born March 22, 1818 in St. Albans , Vermont , † March 9, 1869 in Port Richmond , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Child Jr. was born about three years after the end of the British-American War near St. Albans, Franklin County . He attended community schools. At the age of 14, he then went to the University of Vermont at Burlington . In 1838 he took part in the Vermont Constituent Assembly . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in September 1839 and then started out in East Berkshire . He served as a justice of the peace in 1840. He then moved to New York City around 1848 , where he pursued distillation . Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party .

In the 1854 congressional elections for the 34th Congress , Child was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New York . The term of office began on March 4, 1855. However, during his entire term of office he was unable to attend a parliamentary session due to an illness. As a result of a resolution of March 3, 1857, the US House of Representatives decided that his salary for the period from August 18, 1856 to March 3, 1857 would be calculated and paid as if he had regularly attended the meetings.

Child moved to Port Richmond in 1857 and retired from active business. He was Northfield Town Supervisor in 1865 and 1866 . In 1866 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He died on March 9, 1869 in Port Richmond and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn . At that time the civil war had ended for about four years.

Web links

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

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