Lot Thomas

Lot Thomas (* October 17, 1843 in Markleysburg, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † March 17, 1905 in Yuma, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1905 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lot Thomas attended the common schools and the Vermillion Institute mare in Hayesville (Ohio ). In 1868 he moved to Iowa, where he worked as a teacher in New Virginia in Warren County. After studying law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1870 admitted to the bar he began in Buena Vista County to practice in his new profession.

Between 1885 and 1898 Thomas Judge was in the 14th Judicial District of Iowa. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. As the candidate he was in 1898 in the eleventh electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George D. Perkins on March 4, 1899. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 three legislative periods. At times he was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee. For the elections of 1904 he was not nominated by his party.

Lot Thomas died only two weeks after the end of his tenure during a train ride near Yuma. He was on his way to Los Angeles, where he tried to recover his health.