John Thornton (Louisiana)

John Randolph Thornton (* August 25, 1846 in Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, † December 28, 1917 in Alexandria, Louisiana ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Louisiana in the Senate.

John Thornton was born on the Notoway plantation near Bayou Goula today's ghost town and moved with his parents in 1853 in the Rapides Parish. He first visited the Parker Seminary in Pineville, later the McGruder Institute in Baton Rouge and until 1863 the Louisiana Seminary in Pineville. By the end of the Civil War he served as a soldier in a cavalry regiment in the Confederate Army. After that he worked until 1877 in agriculture. This year, he studied law, was admitted to the Bar Association and began to practice as a lawyer in Rapides Parish; He served in this district from 1878 to 1880 as a judge. He also took part in the 1898 Constitutional Convention of Louisiana and was from 1904 to 1910 the Supervisory Board of the Louisiana State University.

After the death of U.S. Senator Samuel D. McEnery on June 28, 1910 Thornton was appointed by Governor Jared Y. Sanders to succeed him in Congress. He took advantage of his position as of 27 August of the same year and remained after he had decided the election for himself, to March 3, 1915 in Washington. During this time, he was among other things the Fisheries Committee of the Senate. In 1914, he no longer stand for re- election; after his retirement from Congress, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him as a member of a military advisers Committee (Board of Ordnance and Fortification ), where he served until 1917. Then Thornton practiced again as a lawyer in Alexandria, where he still died the same year.

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