Thomas J. Clunie

Thomas Jefferson Clunie ( born March 25, 1852 in St. John's, Newfoundland, † June 30 1903 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Clunies parents came from Massachusetts. He was born during a trip to Canada in St. John's. In 1854 he moved with his parents to California. In the meantime, the family returned to the East, where she spent some time in Maine. Since 1861 Clunie lived permanently in California, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1868 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1870 to work in Sacramento in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1875 he was elected to the California State Assembly; in July 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate. From 1887 to 1889 Clunie was a member of the Senate of California. He was also active in the state militia, in which he rose to brigadier general.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Clunie in the fifth electoral district of California was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles N. Felton on March 4, 1889. Since he has not been confirmed in 1890, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1891. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Clunie again practiced as a lawyer. He died on June 30, 1903 in San Francisco and was buried in Sacramento.