Thomas Menees

Thomas Menees (born June 26, 1823 in Nashville , Tennessee , † September 6, 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American doctor and politician . He belonged to the Democratic Party .

Career

Thomas Menees was born in Davidson County about eight years after the end of the British-American War . Nothing more is known about his youth. He received in 1846 at the Transylvania University 's Doctor of Medicine . His student years were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . Menees practiced for several years in Springfield ( Orangeburg County ) as a doctor before embarking on a political career. He sat in the Tennessee Senate in 1857 . In 1860 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . In November 1861 he was elected for the eighth constituency of Tennessee in the first Confederate Congress, where he took up his post on February 18, 1862. He was then re-elected to the Second Confederate Congress , where he served until 1865. After the end of the Civil War , he resumed his work as a doctor in Nashville. In 1873 he became professor of drug science and therapy in the medical department of the University of Nashville . When the medical departments of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University were merged in 1874, he became the first dean there - a post he held until 1895. He died about nine years before the outbreak of the First World War . His body was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.

↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33

↑ The Confederate War Department - Second Confederate Congress ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Menees, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1905
Place of death	Nashville , Tennessee