Henry F. Thomas

Henry Franklin Thomas ( born December 17, 1843 in Tompkins, Jackson County, Michigan, † April 16, 1912 in Allegan, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Thomas attended the common schools and then to 1859, Albion College. During the Civil War he served 1862-1865 in a cavalry unit from Michigan, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant. After the war he continued his education at the Ypsilanti Normal School. After a subsequent study medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1868 Admitted to the doctor, he began to practice in his new profession in Constantine. In 1870 he moved to Allegan. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the years 1873 and 1874 was Thomas MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; 1875 to 1876 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1892, Thomas was in the fourth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Julius C. Burrows on March 4, 1893. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. Since 1895 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department.

1896 Thomas was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1907 and 1908 he worked as a physician in the Veterans Home of Michigan; 1909 to 1910 he sat in his state parole board. Henry Thomas died on April 16, 1912 in Allegan and was buried in Ann Arbor.