Charles R. Thomas (1827–1891)

Charles Randolph Thomas ( born February 7, 1827 in Beaufort, North Carolina, † February 18, 1891 in New Bern, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Thomas attended a private school in Hillsboro and then studied until 1849 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a subsequent law degree in 1850 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Beaufort in this profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to New Bern. In 1861 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of North Carolina. Thomas was a member of the Republican Party. In 1864 he became acting as Secretary of State official of the State Government. In 1867 he was president of the railroad company Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. Between 1868 and 1870 Thomas officiated as a judge at the Superior Court

In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the second constituency of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Dixon on March 4, 1871. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions. In 1874, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Thomas practiced again as a lawyer in New Bern. There he died on 18 February 1891. He was the father of the eponymous Charles R. Thomas (1861-1931), who was also 1899-1911 for the state of North Carolina in Congress.