John R. Thayer

John Randolph Thayer ( born March 9, 1845 in Douglas, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † December 19, 1916 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1905 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Thayer attended the common schools and the Nichols Academy in Dudley. Then he studied until 1869 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1871 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Worcester in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1874 and 1876, and again from 1878 to 1880 he sat in the council of his hometown. For 15 years he was curator of the Nichols Academy. In the years 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1886, Thayer competed unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Worcester. From 1890 to 1891 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. In 1892, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1898, Thayer was but then in the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph H. Walker on March 4, 1899. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 three legislative periods. In 1904, he renounced a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Thayer practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 19 December 1916 in Worcester.