Thomas Culbreth

Thomas Culbreth ( born April 13, 1786 in Kent County, Delaware, † April 16, 1843 in Caroline County, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1821 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Culbreth attended both public and private schools. In 1806 he moved to Denton in Maryland, where he worked as a store clerk. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1812 and 1813, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. After that, he was in 1813 cashier at the State Bank in Denton year. In the congressional elections of 1816 Culbreth was in the seventh election district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Wright on March 4, 1817. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1821 two legislative sessions. In 1820 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Culbreth served in 1822 as a judge at the court of guardianship for orphans in Caroline County. Between 1825 and 1838 he was an administrative employee at the Governing Council of Maryland. At that time he lived in Annapolis. Then he returned to Denton, where he worked in the trade. He died on 16 April 1843 at his estate Orrell farm in Caroline County.