Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.

Robert Young Jr., Thomas (* July 13, 1855 in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky; † September 3, 1925 in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1925 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Thomas attended the common schools and the Bethel College in Russellville, which he completed in 1878. After a subsequent law degree in 1881 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Central City to work in this profession. He was also active as a journalist. Politically, Thomas member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1886 and 1887 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Between 1903 and 1909 he was a prosecutor in the seventh judicial district of this state.

In the congressional elections of 1908, Thomas was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Addison of the Republican Party on March 4, 1909. After eight elections he could remain until his death on September 3, 1925 at the Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. In addition, in 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. In the years 1919 and 1920 respectively followed the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

Robert Thomas died during a trip to Tennessee on September 3, 1925. He was buried in Greenville.