Thomas Marshall (politician)

Thomas Alexander Marshall (born November 4, 1817 in Kentucky , †  November 11, 1873 in Charleston , Illinois ) was an American politician . In 1861 he was a short-term lieutenant governor of the state of Illinois.

Career

Thomas Marshall graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio . After a subsequent law degree at Transylvania College in Lexington and his admission to the bar, he began to work in this profession. He later came to Illinois, where he lived in Charleston. He also worked as a banker and had his own company called TA Marshall Co. His party affiliation is stated differently in the sources. Partly he is run as a Democrat , partly as a Republican . Accordingly, he was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 , at which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1847, Marshall took part as a delegate to an Illinois constitutional convention. In the late 1850s he was a member and chairman of the Illinois Senate . In this capacity, he moved up to the office of lieutenant governor when the previous incumbent John Wood replaced Governor William Henry Bissell , who died in March 1860 . The exact term of office of Marshall as acting vice governor remains unclear. The official lists only give him a week between January 7th and 14th, 1861. Other information says that he held this position during the entire tenure of Governor John Wood; that was between March 18, 1860 and January 14, 1861. During the civil war he was a colonel in the Union army .

After the end of his time as Lieutenant Governor, Thomas Marshall no longer appeared politically. He died on November 11, 1873 in Charleston, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Thomas Marshall in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Thomas Marshall at The Political Graveyard
• Mention of Marshall as Lieutenant Governor by John Wood 1860-1861