Thomas P. Ochiltree

Thomas Peck Ochiltree ( born October 26, 1837 in Nacogdoches, Texas, † November 25, 1902 in Hot Springs, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Ochiltree attended the public schools of his home. In 1854 and 1855 he took part in campaigns against the Apaches and Comanches as a member of the Texas Rangers. In 1857 he was admitted with special permission as a lawyer. It is not known whether he has ever worked as a lawyer. From 1856 to 1859 he was Verwaltungsangestelleter the Texas House of Representatives. At that time he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1860 he was a delegate to two Democratic National Conventions, held in Charleston and Baltimore. At that time he also published the newspaper " Jeffersonian ". During the Civil War Ochiltree served in the army of the Confederacy, in which he brought it up to Major. After the war he published the newspaper " Houston Daily Telegraph " in the years 1866 and 1867. Between 1870 and 1873 he was immigration commissioner of the State of Texas in Europe. In 1874 he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the U.S. Marshal for the Eastern part of the state of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Ochiltree was as an independent candidate in the then newly established seventh electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. Until March 3, 1885, he was able to complete a term in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in New York City. He died on November 8, 1903 in Hot Springs.