Thomas Wingfield Grimes

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Thomas Wingfield Grimes (born December 18, 1844 in Columbus , Georgia , †  October 28, 1905 there ) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Grimes attended private schools in his youth and then studied at the University of Georgia in Athens until 1863 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Columbus. During the Civil War he served 18 months in the army of the Confederacy . Politically, Grimes was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1868 and 1876 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . From 1878 to 1879 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1880 Grimes was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. Since that year he has also served as a prosecutor in the Chattahoochee Judicial District .

In the 1886 congressional election , Grimes was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Henry R. Harris on March 4, 1887 . After a re-election in 1888, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1891 . In the run-up to the elections in 1890 , he was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative term.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thomas Grimes retired from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on October 28, 1905 in his hometown of Columbus.

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