Thomas R. Horton

Thomas Raymond Horton (* April 1822 in Fultonville, New York, † July 26, 1894 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Raymond Thomas Horton was born about seven years after the end of the British - American War in Fultonville in Montgomery County. He attended public schools. Then he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. In 1848 he sat on the Board of Trustees of Fultonville. He worked for six years as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Montgomery County. In addition, he spent eight years as a justice of the peace. Between 1841 and 1857 he issued the Amsterdam Recorder, where he worked as a publisher.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress Horton was for the opposition party in the 18th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter Rowe on March 4, 1855. Since he gave up for reelection in 1856, he retired after March 3, 1857 from the Congress.

He then joined the Republican Party. As a delegate, he took in 1860 at the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part. During the Civil War he served 1862-1864 as Adjutant in the 115th Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry. After that, he worked as editor and publisher of the Montgomery County Republican. On 26 July 1894 he died in Fultonville and was then buried in the Village Cemetery.