John Chew Thomas

John Chew Thomas (* October 15, 1764 in Perryville, Cecil County, Maryland, † May 10, 1836 at Leiperville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1799 and 1801 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Thomas attended private schools in his native country and studied until 1783 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Around the year 1789 he moved to the estate Fairland in Anne Arundel County. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1787. But he has not worked hard in this profession. End of the 1790s he joined, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. Between 1796 and 1797 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1798, Thomas was elected in the second district of Maryland in the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Richard Sprigg on March 4, 1799. Since he resigned in 1800 to a bid again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1801. During this time, the new federal capital of Washington DC was related. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Thomas moved to Pennsylvania. He died on 10 May 1836 in Leiperville without being politically entered again in appearance.