Thomas Ryan (politician, 1837)

Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan (born November 25, 1837 in Oxford , Chenango County , New York , †  May 5, 1914 in Muskogee , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1885 he represented the third and from 1885 to 1889 the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives . He was also the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1889 to 1893 .

Career

In his early teens, Thomas Ryan moved with his parents to Bradford County , Pennsylvania . He attended Dickson Seminary in Williamsport . After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1861. Between 1862 and 1864 he was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War . In 1865 Ryan moved to Topeka , Kansas.

Between 1865 and 1873 he was a district attorney for Shawnee County and from 1873 to 1877 he was the assistant federal attorney for Kansas. Politically, Ryan was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1876 he was elected as their candidate in the third district of Kansas to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took over from William R. Brown on March 4, 1877 . He represented this district after some re-elections until March 3, 1885. In 1884 he ran for the fourth district, which he then represented as the successor to Lewis Hanback between March 4, 1885 and April 4, 1889 in Congress .

On April 4, 1889, Ryan resigned his parliamentary mandate after being appointed US ambassador to Mexico by President Benjamin Harrison . He held this office until 1893. In 1897, Ryan was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior by President William McKinley . He held this office until 1907. In that year he was established as permanent representative of the Interior Ministry to Muskogee, Oklahoma. He died there in 1914.

Web links

• Thomas Ryan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Thomas Ryan in the database of Find a Grave (English)