Thomas Cale

Thomas Cale ( born September 17, 1848 in Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont; † February 3, 1941 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1909 he represented as a delegate, the Alaska Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Cale attended after elementary school Bell Academy. In 1866 he moved briefly to Fort Edward in Washington County in the state of New York. From 1867 to 1868, he worked as a school teacher in his home in Vermont. In 1869, he moved to Wisconsin, where he taught at various schools as a teacher in the Fond du Lac County. He also became involved at times in agriculture. From 1884 to 1886 he was in the county council of the Fond du Lac County. He was from 1886 to 1887 Deputy Sheriffs. After that, he was until 1890 even sheriff in the district. Then he acted with agricultural machinery, before he at the time of the Klondike gold rush moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1898.

In Alaska, he worked in the mining business. In the congressional elections of 1906, he was elected as an independent candidate for delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1907 Frank Hinman Waskey. Cale completed a term in Congress. Since Alaska was still not an official state in the U.S., Cale had no vote in Congress. In 1908 he declined to run again. He then worked as a farmer in South Dakota between 1910 and 1915. He then moved back to Wisconsin, where he worked from 1915 to 1920 again as a farmer. In 1920 he sat in Fond du Lac to rest. He is also passed away in February 1941.