Thomas C. Power

Thomas Charles Power ( * May 22, 1839 in Dubuque, Iowa, † February 16, 1923 in Helena, Montana ) was an American politician ( Republican) and one of the first two U.S. senators for the state of Montana.

Thomas Power attended the public schools in Iowa and then the Sinsinawa College in Wisconsin, where he earned a degree in engineering. As a result, he went to this profession; He also taught as a teacher. In 1860 he was employed in the Dakota Territory as a surveyor before he worked as a dealer in the area along the Missouri 1861-1867. He was also president of a steamship company.

After he had settled in Montana Territory, Power initially lived in Fort Benton and then in Helena. There, his interest trading and the banking industry, before turning to politics. In 1883 he took part in the first Constitutional Convention of Montana; six years later he applied for the post of the first governor in the new State, but lost narrowly 49:51 percent of the vote to Democrat Joseph Toole. In 1890 he was elected to the side of Wilbur F. Sanders for Montana in the U.S. Senate, where he held his position on January 2, 1890 to March 3, 1895. In a bid again he refused.

Power then returned to Montana. He went back to his business activities. Among other things, he ran the trading company T. C. Power and Bro, which was one of the leading companies in this sector in the northwestern United States and western Canada. He died in 1923 in Helena and was buried at the local Resurrection Cemetery. The village power in Teton County was named after Thomas Power.

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