Thomas J. Speer

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Thomas Jefferson Speer (born August 31, 1837 in Monroe County , Georgia , †  August 18, 1872 in Barnesville , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1872 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Speer attended the public schools in his home country. Then he worked in trade and as a planter . In 1861 and 1865 he was elected justice of the peace in his homeland. From 1863 to 1865 he was a tax collector in Pike County for the Confederate Government . Between 1865 and 1868 he worked as a judge in this district. Politically, Speer joined the Republican Party after the end of the American Civil War . In 1867 and 1868 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Georgia Constitution. From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the congressional election of 1870 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Jefferson F. Long on March 4, 1871 . Thomas Speer was able to exercise his mandate until his death on August 18, 1872. In the now necessary by-election, the Democrat Erasmus W. Beck was elected as his successor. Thomas Speer was the last Republican to represent Georgia’s fourth district in Congress until Benjamin B. Blackburn took office in 1967.

Web links

  • Thomas J. Speer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Speer, Thomas J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Thomas Jefferson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Monroe County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1872
Place of death Barnesville , Georgia