Thomas Johns Perry

Thomas Johns Perry ( born February 17, 1807 in Cumberland, Maryland, † June 27, 1871 ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Perry graduated from preparatory schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1828 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Cumberland in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1834 and 1836 he sat in the House of Maryland. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis Brengle on March 4, 1845. Since he resigned in 1846 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1847. This was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.

Between 1851 and 1861, and again from 1864 to 1871 Perry officiated as a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Maryland. In 1867 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention of his state. He died on June 27, 1871 in Cumberland, where he was also buried.