Thomas Tipton (politician)

Thomas Tipton

Thomas Weston Tipton (born August 5, 1817 in Cadiz , Harrison County , Ohio , †  November 26, 1899 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician who represented the state of Nebraska in the US Senate .

Life

Tipton attended Allegheny College in Meadville and studied classical studies at Madison College in Pennsylvania until 1840 . He then studied law and worked as a lawyer in 1844. In 1845 he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. From 1849 to 1852 he held an office in the Land Office , an agency responsible for distributing land to new settlers. He then returned to the legal profession , which he practiced from 1853 in McConnelsville . In 1856 he was ordained a priest of the Methodist Episcopal Church . Around 1859 he moved to Brownville , Nebraska, and joined the Congregational Church . In 1859 he was a member of a constituent assembly for Nebraska, in 1860 a member of the Territorial Council .

During the Civil War , Tipton was chaplain of the 1st Voluntary Infantry Regiment (later Cavalry Regiment) of Nebraska from 1861 to 1865, which fought on the side of the Union. In 1865 he became a "Assessor of internal revenue" tax officer in the Nebraska Territory, and in 1867 he was again a member of a constituent assembly for Nebraska.

After Nebraska became a United States state, he was a Republican member of the US Senate from 1867 to 1875 . He then returned to the legal profession and ran in vain for the post of governor of Nebraska in 1880 . Tipton died in Washington in 1899 and is buried there in Rock Creek Cemetery .

Publications

• Forty Years of Nebraska At Home and In Congress . State Journal Co., Lincoln 1902 in the Google Book Search USA

Web links

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