John A. Thayer

John Alden Thayer ( born December 22, 1857 in Worcester, Massachusetts, † July 31, 1917 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Thayer was the son of Congressman Eli Thayer ( 1819-1899 ). He attended the common schools and then studied until 1879 at Harvard University. Then he taught intermittently as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree from Columbia College in New York City and his 1889 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Worcester in this profession. Between 1892 and 1897 he was employed in the management of the District Court in Worcester. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Thayer was the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles G. Washburn on March 4, 1911. Since he was not re-elected in 1912, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate.

In 1915, John Thayer postmaster in Worcester. This office he held until his death on 31 July 1917.