Eli Thayer

Eli Thayer ( born June 11, 1819 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † April 15, 1899 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Eli Thayer attended the common schools and the Worcester Manual Labor School. Between 1835 and 1836 he taught at Douglas as a teacher. In 1842, he practiced this profession in Hopkinton (Rhode Iceland ). In 1844 he headed a boys' school in Providence. At the same time he set up his own training in 1845 with a degree from Brown University in Providence continued. After that, he was until 1848 a teacher at Worcester Academy. Thayer also studied the law, but without ever working as a lawyer. In 1848 he founded a girls' school named Oread Collegiate Institute; at the same time he embarked on a political career. He sat in the 1852 school board of the city of Worcester, whose council he belonged in the years 1852 and 1853. From 1853 to 1854 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Politically he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. He was involved in the founding of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, the colonists gave in the territory that became the State of Kansas. These settlers were all opposed to slavery and should prevent a drop of the area to the slave- friendly South. However, it then came to Kansas bloody clashes both sides.

In the congressional elections of 1856, Thayer was the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alexander De Witt on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. Since 1859, Thayer was chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property. In 1860 he was not re-elected. In May this year he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Eli Thayer was active among others in the railway business. In 1872, he unsuccessfully sought his return to Congress. He died on 15 April 1899 in Worcester. His son John (1857-1917) was also a congressman.