John Lewis Thomas, Jr.

John Lewis Thomas ( born May 20, 1835 in Baltimore, Maryland, † October 15, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Thomas attended the common schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1856 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Cumberland in this profession. In the years 1856 and 1857 he was legal adviser to the city. 1857 Thomas moved his office and his residence to Baltimore, where he was a 1860-1862 urban lawyer. From 1863 to 1865 he worked as a prosecutor. In 1863 he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate.

Following the resignation of Mr Edwin Hanson Webster Thomas was at the due election for the second seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1865. Until March 3, 1867 he ended the opened term in Congress. During this time he became a member of the Republican Party. In 1866 he was defeated at the desired re-election as the candidate of the Democrats Stevenson Archer. His time in Congress was marked by the quarrels between his new party and President Andrew Johnson.

Between 1869 and 1873, and again from 1877 to 1882 led Thomas the customs authority at the port of Baltimore. He died on October 15, 1893 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.

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