Thomas Frank Marshall

Thomas Frank Marshall ( born March 7, 1854 in Hannibal, Missouri; † August 20, 1921 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1909 he represented the first electoral district of the State of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and career

Thomas Marshall attended the public schools and the State Normal School at Platteville (Wisconsin ). In 1873 he dropped out of school two months before the final examination. 40 years later, he received his diploma then. Marshall was a surveyor and worked as such in Yankton in the Dakota Territory. He also became involved there also commercially available. In 1882 he moved to Columbia in present-day North Dakota, where he went into the banking business. After another move in 1886, according to Oakes in Dickey County, he was also where he worked in banking and in the land surveying.

Political career

Thomas Marshall was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1888 and 1892 he was mayor of the city of Oakes and 1896-1900 he was a member of the Senate of North Dakota. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In the congressional elections of 1900, Thomas Marshall was elected to succeed Burleigh F. Spalding in the U.S. House of Representatives. After several re- elections he could implement his mandate in Congress between March 4, 1901 March 3, 1909. In his last term he was chairman of the committee which dealt with private land claims (Private Land Claims ). In 1908, he opted not to re-election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Its seat in the House of Representatives went to Louis Benjamin Hanna.

Further CV

After the end of his service in Washington Marshall engaged again in banking. He died in 1921 at his summer home in Minnesota and was buried in Oakes.