Thomas P. Ochiltree

Thomas P. Ochiltree

Thomas Peck Ochiltree (born October 26, 1837 in Nacogdoches , Texas , †  November 25, 1902 in Hot Springs , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Ochiltree attended public schools in his home country. In the years 1854 and 1855 he took part in campaigns against the Apaches and Comanches as a member of the Texas Rangers . In 1857 he was admitted to the bar with special permission. However, it is not known whether he ever worked as a lawyer. From 1856 to 1859 he was an administrator for the Texas House of Representatives . At that time he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1860 he was a delegate to both Democratic National Conventions , which were held in Charleston and Baltimore . At that time he also published the Jeffersonian newspaper. During the Civil War , Ochiltree served in the Confederation Army , where he made it to major. After the war, he published the Houston Daily Telegraph in 1866 and 1867. Between 1870 and 1873 he was Texas State Immigration Officer in Europe. In 1874 he was named US Marshal for the eastern part of Texas by President Ulysses S. Grant .

In the congressional election of 1882 , Ochiltree was elected as an independent candidate in the then newly established Seventh Constituency of Texas to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. Until March 3, 1885 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in New York City . He died in Hot Springs on November 8, 1903.

Web links

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• Thomas P. Ochiltree in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas P. Ochiltree in the database of Find a Grave (English)