Thomas Rivers

This article is about the politician Thomas Rivers. For the bacteriologist, see Thomas Milton Rivers .

Thomas Rivers (born September 18, 1819 in Franklin County , Tennessee , †  March 18, 1863 in Somerville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Rivers enjoyed a good elementary school education. He then graduated from La Grange College in Alabama . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1839, he began to work in Somerville in his new profession. Rivers served for many years in the Tennessee State Militia, where he rose to brigadier general.

In the 1850s, he joined the short-lived American Party . In the congressional election of 1854 he was elected as their candidate in the tenth constituency of Tennessee to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Frederick Perry Stanton on March 4, 1855 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1856, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1857 . This was determined by the events leading up to the civil war .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thomas Rivers returned to practice as a lawyer. He died on March 18, 1863 on his Fayette County plantation .

Web links

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

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