Thomas Hurley Brents

Thomas Hurley Brents (* December 24, 1840 in Florence, Pike County, Illinois, † October 23, 1916 in Walla Walla, Washington ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1885 he represented the Washington Territory as a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States.

Career

Thomas Brent attended the public schools of his home and then the Portland Academy in Oregon. He also graduated from the Baptist Seminary and the McMinnville College. In 1862 he was justice of the peace. Between 1863 and 1866 Brent worked in Canyon City in the trade. From 1863 and 1864 he acted in this place as a post holder. Between 1864 and 1866 he was employed in the management of Grant County.

Politically, Brent member of the Republican Party. In 1866 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Oregon. After studying law and its also made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new career in 1867 after moving to San Francisco in California. In 1870 he moved to Walla Walla in what was then Washington Territory. There he was in 1871 and 1872 legal representatives of this city over the years. In 1874, he headed the territorial Republican convention in Vancouver.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Brent was a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Orange Jacobs on March 4, 1879. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 three legislative periods. In 1884, Brent was not nominated by his party for another term. After his retirement from the House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. Between 1896 and 1913 Brents judge was in Walla Walla Superior Court. In this city he died on 23 October 1916.