Thomas J. Cason

Thomas Jefferson Cason (* September 13, 1828 in Brownsville, Union County, Indiana, † July 10, 1901 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1832 Thomas Cason moved with his parents in the Boone County, where the family settled on a farm near Thorntown. He attended the public schools of his new home and taught himself afterwards for some years in Boone County as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law in Crawfordsville and its made ​​in 1850 admitted to the bar he began in Lebanon to work in this profession. Politically, Cason member of the Republican Party. Between 1861 and 1864 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Indiana; 1864 to 1867 he was a member of the State Senate. After that, he was from 1867 to 1871 served as a judge; then again, he practiced as a lawyer.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Cason was selected in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Mahlon Dickerson Manson on March 4, 1873. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1877 two legislative sessions. Since 1875 he represented there as the successor of John Shanks the ninth district of his state. In 1876, Cason has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked until 1897 as a lawyer again. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in the federal capital, Washington, where he died on 10 July 1901.