T. R. Stockdale

Thomas Ringland Stockdale ( born March 28, 1828 in West Union Church, Greene County, Pennsylvania, † January 8, 1899 in Summit, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

TR Stockdale visited until 1856, the Jefferson College in Canonsburg. In 1857 he moved to the Pike County, Mississippi, where he worked as a teacher. In addition, he studied until 1859 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Woodville to work in his new profession. During the Civil War Stockdale rose in the army of the Confederate States until Major.

After the war he continued his legal career continued as a lawyer in Summit. Politically, Stockdale joined the Democratic Party. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he Henry Smith Van Eaton replaced on March 4, 1887. After three elections Stockdale was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 a total of four legislative sessions. For the elections of 1894 he was not nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in Congress Stockdale was appointed on 1 December 1896 as judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi. He died on January 8, 1899 in Summit and was also buried there.