Thomas Hale Sill
Thomas Hale Sill ( born October 11, 1783 in Windsor, Connecticut; † February 7, 1856 in Erie, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1826 and 1831 he represented twice the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Thomas Sill attended preparatory schools and then studied until 1804 at Brown University in Providence. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lebanon (Ohio ) to work in this profession. In 1813 he moved his residence and his law firm to Erie in Pennsylvania. There he became a member of the state militia. Between 1816 and 1818 Thomas Sill was Deputy U.S. Marshal. From 1816 to 1817 he served also as mayor (Burgess) of Erie; in 1819 he was Deputy Attorney General. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. After its dissolution he joined the Whigs. In 1823 he sat in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
After the death of Mr Patrick Farrelly Sill was in the due -election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 14 in 1826. Until March 3, 1827 he was able to end the current parliamentary term. In the congressional elections of 1828 Sill was chosen as Nationalrepublikaner again in the 18th Election District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Stephen Barlow on March 4, 1829 which was two years before become his successor. Since he resigned in 1830 to run again, he was able to complete only one more term in Congress until March 3, 1831. This was marked by discussions on the policies of President Andrew Jackson.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Sill again practiced as a lawyer. He also was 1837 President of the United States branch of the bank in the city of Erie in the year. In the years 1837 and 1838 he was a member of a constitutional convention of his state. From 1847 to 1853 he served as postmaster in Erie. In the presidential election of 1848 he was one of the electors for the Whigs, who officially chose Zachary Taylor as president. About 30 years Sill was also director of the Erie Academy. He died on 7 February 1856 in Erie.