Thomas Child, Jr.

Thomas Child junior ( * March 22, 1818 in St. Albans, Vermont; † March 9, 1869 in Port Richmond, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Child Thomas junior was born about three years after the end of the British - American War in St. Albans. He attended community schools. At the age of 14, he then went to the University of Vermont in Burlington. In 1838 he participated in the Constituent Assembly of Vermont. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in September 1839 and then started in East Berkshire. He was in 1840 working as a justice of the peace. Then he moved in 1848 to New York City, where he pursued the distillation. Politically he belonged to the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress of Child was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. The term of office began on 4 March 1855. He could, however, participate conditionally in all his term of office by a disease at any session. As a result of a decision of March 3, 1857 the U.S. House of Representatives has decided that his salary will be calculated and paid for the period from 18 August 1856 to March 3, 1857, when he participated regularly in the meetings.

Child moved in 1857 his residence to Port Richmond and retired from active business. He was in the years 1865 and 1866 Town Supervisor of Northfield. In 1866 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He died on 9 March 1869 in Port Richmond and then was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. At the time of the Civil War was about four years too late.