Thomas J. Cason

Thomas J. Cason

Thomas Jefferson Cason (born September 13, 1828 in Brownsville , Union County , Indiana , †  July 10, 1901 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1832 Thomas Cason and his parents moved to Boone County , where the family settled on a farm near Thorntown . He attended the public schools in his new home and then taught himself for several years in Boone County as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in Crawfordsville and his admission as a lawyer in 1850, he began to work in this profession in Lebanon . Politically, Cason was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1861 and 1864 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives ; from 1864 to 1867 he was a member of the State Senate . He then served as a judge in Boone County from 1867 to 1871; then he practiced as a lawyer again.

In the congressional election of 1872 Cason was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh constituency of Indiana, where he succeeded Mahlon Dickerson Manson on March 4, 1873 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1877 . Since 1875 he represented the ninth district of his state there as the successor to John Shanks . In 1876 Cason was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again until 1897. He then retired, which he spent in the federal capital Washington, where he died on July 10, 1901.

Web links

• Thomas J. Cason in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas J. Cason in the database of Find a Grave (English)