Thomas M. Gunter

Thomas M. Gunter

Thomas Montague Gunter (born September 18, 1826 in McMinnville , Warren County , Tennessee , †  January 12, 1904 in Fayetteville , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1874 and 1885 he represented the third and fourth constituencies of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Gunter enjoyed a good education in his home country and graduated from Irving College in 1850 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1853, he began to work in his new profession in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In 1861 he was a delegate to Congress that decided to withdraw the state of Arkansas from the Union. During the Civil War he was Colonel in the army of the Confederate States .

After the war, Gunter was a prosecutor in the Arkansas fourth judicial district from 1866 to 1868. In the congressional elections of 1872 he lost in the third district of Arkansas to William W. Wilshire , who ran for the Republican Party . But Gunter appealed against the election result. When this was granted, he was able to take over the seat of Wilshire on June 16, 1874 and end its legislative period until March 3, 1875. In the elections of 1874 Gunter ran in the fourth district, which he represented after several re-elections between March 4, 1875 and March 3, 1885 in Congress . During this time he was chairman of the committee that dealt with private land claims to the government.

In 1882 Gunter renounced another candidacy for the congress. He returned to Fayetteville, where he again worked as a lawyer. He died there in 1904.

Web links

• Thomas M. Gunter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas M. Gunter in the Find a Grave database (English)