John Mellen Thurston

John Mellen Thurston ( born August 21, 1847 in Montpelier, Vermont; † August 9, 1916 in Omaha, Nebraska) was an American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Nebraska.

Early years

1854 drew John M. Thurston with his family to Madison, Wisconsin, and from there two years later to Beaver Dam. There Thurston attended the public schools. At seventeen, he moved to Chicago, where he briefly worked as a truck driver for a food company. But a year later, he returned to Beaver Dam and attended Wayland Academy, from which he graduated in 1867. After two years of study of law in a law firm, he was admitted to the bar in 1869 and began to work in Omaha. In 1872, he married Mrs. Martha Poland; She died on 14 March 1898. His second wife Lola Pearman he married in 1900.

Political rise

Between 1872 and 1874 he was a city council member and over the next three years, city attorney of the city. From 1875 to 1877 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Nebraska. He then took over as assistant attorney the role of the legal adviser at the Union Pacific Railroad and in 1888 appointed general solicitor for their. After a first unsuccessful candidacy for senator in 1893, Thurston resigned at the Union Pacific Railroad in 1895 and was down in the legislative period of 4 March 1895 up to March 3, 1901 Republican Senator in Washington, DC During his tenure, he was a member of the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Although he was not prepared for re-election, he lived until 1915 in Washington, where he was in 1901 a member of the Commission from April, which was responsible for the planning of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition held. 1915 Thurston then returned to Omaha.

Evening of life and death

At the law firm Thurston, Crow & Morrison, he worked until shortly before his death on August 9, 1916. John Mellen Thurston died after four weeks of disease from the consequences of heat damage.

In his honor, the Thurston County was named after him in Nebraska.