Thomas Lawyer

Lawyer Thomas ( born October 14, 1785 in Schoharie, New York, † May 21, 1868 in Ville Lawyers, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lawyer Thomas was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Schoharie and grew up there. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Schoharie County. In 1816 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was brigadier general in the National Guard of New York.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 for the 15th Congress, he was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John B. Yates on March 4, 1817. He retired after March 3, 1819 from the Congress.

Between 1822 and 1831 he was district attorney in Schoharie County. He sat again in 1846 in the New York State Assembly. On May 21, 1868, he died in Ville Lawyers. At the time of the Civil War was about three years too late.