Thomas U. Sisson

Thomas U. Sisson

Thomas Upton Sisson (born September 22, 1869 in McCool , Attala County , Mississippi , †  September 26, 1923 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1923 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Sisson came from a young age with his father to Choctaw County , Mississippi, where he attended public schools. He also graduated from the French Camp Academy , also in Mississippi state. Until 1889 he was at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville ( Tennessee ). With a law degree at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and Cumberland University in Tennessee, Sisson finished his studies in 1894.

After his admission to the bar in 1894, he began working in his new profession in Winona , Montgomery County . Politically, Sisson was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1898 he was a member of the State Senate , from 1903 to 1907 he was a district attorney in the fifth judicial district of Mississippi.

In 1908 Sisson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he replaced Wilson S. Hill on March 4, 1909 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete a total of seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1923 . During this time, the First World War , the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage and the prohibition law took place . In the congressional elections of 1922 he was defeated in the primary elections of his party T. Jeff Busby . Thomas Sisson died in Washington in September 1923, just months after the end of his last term in Congress. He was buried in Winona.

Web links

• Thomas U. Sisson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas U. Sisson in the database of Find a Grave (English)