Thomas Jefferson Lilly

Thomas Jefferson Lilly ( born June 3, 1878 in Dunns, Mercer County, West Virginia, † April 2, 1956 in Sweet Springs, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Lilly attended the public schools of his home. He then became a teacher himself for some time. He also engaged in farming. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a justice of the peace in his home town. After studying law at McKinley University in Chicago and its made ​​in 1911 admitted to the bar he began in Hinton (West Virginia) to work in his new profession. Between 1914 and 1922 he was in Summers County as divorce court ( Divorce Commissioner) operates.

Lilly was a member of the Democratic Party and in 1922 as its candidate in the fifth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1923 is the successor of the Republican Goodykoontz Wells, whom he had beaten in the election. But as he, in turn, the Republican James F. Strother defeated at the next election in 1924, Lilly was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1925. After the end of his time in Congress, he again worked as a lawyer. He also continued to work in agriculture. Politically, he is no more have appeared. Thomas Lilly died on April 2, 1956 in Sweet Springs, and was buried in Hinton.