Thomas H. Blake

Thomas Holdsworth Blake ( born June 14, 1792 Calvert County, Maryland, † November 28, 1849 in Cincinnati, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1829 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Blake attended the public schools of his home. He studied in Washington, D.C. Jura. As a member of the militia of the federal capital, he participated in the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814. Later, he moved first to Kentucky and then to Indiana, where he practiced as a lawyer in Terre Haute. After that, he was a prosecutor and judge at the local district court. Later, he gave up his legal activities, to pursue other shops.

Politically, Blake was in the 1820s a supporter of President John Quincy Adams. End of the decade he became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Prior to his time as a Congressman Blake sat in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1826, he was elected in the first district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Ratliff Boon on March 4, 1827. Since he has not been confirmed in 1828, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1829. This was marked by the debate between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson.

Between 1842 and 1845 Blake was entrusted with the management of the Cadastral Agency ( Land Office ). Later he was president of the Wabash & Erie Canal Co. In 1849 he traveled on behalf of his state as a financial agent to England. On the way back he died on November 28, 1849 in Cincinnati. He was buried in Terre Haute.