Thomas F. Magner

Thomas F. Magner

Thomas Francis Magner (born March 8, 1860 in Brooklyn , New York , † December 22, 1945 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1889 and 1895 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Francis Magner was born about a year before the outbreak of the Civil War in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools. He graduated from St. Xavier College in 1880 and from Columbia University in New York City in 1882 . He then taught at a public school in Brooklyn. He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and began practicing in Brooklyn that year. In 1888 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1888 Magner was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Archibald Meserole Bliss on March 4, 1889 . He was re-elected once. Then he ran for a seat in Congress in the sixth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded John R. Fellows on March 4, 1893 . Two years later he renounced another candidacy and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1895 .

He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. Between 1913 and 1917 he served as corporation counsel in the borough of Brooklyn. Magner continued his previous occupation until his death. He died in Brooklyn after the end of World War II on December 22, 1945 and was then buried in Holy Cross Cemetery . Congressman John Francis Carew was his nephew.

Web links

• Thomas F. Magner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas F. Magner in the database of Find a Grave (English)