Thomas L. Blanton

Thomas Lindsay Blanton ( born October 25, 1872 in Houston, Texas; † August 11, 1957 in Albany, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1937 he represented two times the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Blanton attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and his 1897 was admitted to the bar he began in Cleburne to work in this profession. Soon after, he moved to Albany, where he continued to practice until 1908 as a lawyer. Between 1908 and 1917 Blanton judge was in his 42nd Judicial District of the State. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Blanton was in the 16th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Robert Smith on March 4, 1917. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 six legislative periods. Since 1919 he represented as a successor to Daniel E. Garrett the 17th district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the First World War and the ratification of the 18th and 19th constitutional amendment fell. 1921 Blanton was warned in an article published by him in the official conference publication letter from the Congress because of improper language. He narrowly escaped his exclusion from the House of Representatives. In his constituency has this incident but did not hurt him. It was in 1922, 1924 and 1926 respectively re-elected.

In 1928 he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After the death of Mr Robert Quincy Lee, who had taken his seat in Congress in 1929, Blanton was elected at the election due to his successor, and returned on 20 May 1930 Back to the House of Representatives. After three re- elections he could remain there until January 3, 1937. Here, from 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were adopted. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1936 Blanton has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in the years 1937 and 1938 as an attorney in the federal capital Washington. He then returned to Albany, where he continued to work as a lawyer. He also bred there Hereford cattle. Thomas Blanton died on August 11, 1957 in Albany, where he was also buried.