Thomas McEwan

Thomas McEwan

Thomas McEwan Jr. (born February 26, 1854 in Paterson , New Jersey , †  September 11, 1926 in Jersey City , New Jersey) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas McEwan attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in the building trade. After a subsequent law degree at Columbia University and his admission to the bar in 1885, he began to work in this profession in New York City and Jersey City. In 1886 and 1887 he was an assessor in Jersey City. From 1887 to 1888 he worked for the tax authority of this city. From 1886 to 1906 he was secretary to Morgan Dix , the rector of Trinity Church in Manhattan . In 1892 and 1893, McEwan served as a federal election observer for New Jersey. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1877 and 1896 he was a delegate and secretary to all regional Republican party conventions at the state level for New Jersey and Hudson County . From 1878 to 1893 he was a secretary on his party's board of directors in Hudson County. In 1892 and 1896 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions .

From 1893 to 1894, McEwan was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . There he was Republican parliamentary group leader in 1894. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded George Bragg Fielder on March 4, 1895 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell .

In 1898 McEwan declined to run again. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1904 and 1924 he worked as a banker in West Hoboken . Thomas McEwan died in Jersey City on September 11, 1926.

Web links

• Thomas McEwan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas McEwan in the database of Find a Grave (English)