Thomas Spight

Thomas Spight

Thomas Spight (born October 25, 1841 in Ripley , Tippah County , Mississippi , † January 5, 1924 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1898 and 1911 he represented the second constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Spight attended his home public schools, the Ripley Academy and then Purdy College in Tennessee . He also studied at LaGrange Synodical College, also in Tennessee. During the Civil War he took it to the army of the Confederate States to the Captain .

After the war, Spight initially worked as a teacher and in agriculture. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1875, he began working in his new profession in his native Ripley. Politically, Thomas Spight became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1874 and 1880 he was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives . It was then that Spight also got into the newspaper business. In 1879 he founded the newspaper "Southern Sentinel". After five years, however, he withdrew from this industry. From 1884 to 1892 Spight was a District Attorney in the Third Judicial District.

After the resignation of Congressman William V. Sullivan , who moved to the US Senate , Spight was elected in 1898 in a by-election to his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . After he was confirmed in this office in the following elections, he was able to exercise the mandate in Congress between July 5, 1898 and March 3, 1911. In 1910 he was no longer nominated for another term by his party. After leaving Congress, Spight returned to work as a lawyer. He also dealt with religious matters. He died on January 5, 1924 in his native Ripley and was buried there.

Web links

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

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