Thomas Bouldin

Thomas Tyler Bouldin (* 1781 in Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Virginia; † February 11, 1834 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1834 he represented two times the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Bouldin was the older brother of Congressman James Bouldin ( 1792-1854 ). He attended the common schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1802 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his home in this profession. Later, he worked as a judge. Politically, he joined in the 1820s, the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Bouldin was selected in the fifth electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John Randolph on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1832, Bouldin has not been confirmed. After the death of John Randolph, who had succeeded him, he was again elected in a special election as his successor in Congress, where he took up his position on 26 August 1833. He was able to exercise until his death on 11 February 1834. As the only Congressman Thomas Bouldin died during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was buried on his estate Golden Hills in Charlotte County.