Thomas Taber II.

Thomas Taber II ( born May 19, 1785 Dover, New York, † March 21, 1862 in Roslyn, New York ) was an American politician. In the years 1828 and 1829 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Taber II was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Dover and grew up there. He attended community schools and then went for the agricultural sector. In 1826 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. He was on 5 November 1828 in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he was to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Thomas J. Oakley. After March 3, 1829, he resigned from the Congress. He died on March 21, 1862 in Roslyn and was buried in the Friends Cemetery in Westbury. At that time was the first year of the civil war to an end. His son was Congressman Stephen Taber.