Thomas Tipton

Thomas Weston Tipton (* August 5, 1817 in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio; † November 26, 1899 in Washington DC) was an American politician who represented the state of Nebraska in the U.S. Senate.

Life

Tipton attended Allegheny College in Meadville and studied until 1840 classic Ancient Studies at Madison College in Pennsylvania. He then studied law and was as active as a lawyer in 1844. In 1845 he was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. From 1849 to 1852 he held an office in the land office, an agency that was responsible for the distribution of land to new settlers. Then he returned to the legal profession, he exerted in McConnelsville in 1853. In 1856 he was ordained a priest of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To 1859, he moved to Brownsville in the Nebraska Territory and joined the Congregational Church at. In 1859 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly for Nebraska, in 1860 a member of the Territorial Council.

In the civil war Tipton was from 1861 to 1865 chaplain of the 1st Volunteer Infantry Regiment (later Cavalry Regiment ) of Nebraska, which fought on the side of the Union. In 1865, he was described as " assessor of internal revenue " tax official in the Nebraska Territory, in 1867 a member of the Constituent Assembly for Nebraska.

After recording of Nebraska as a state of the United States he was from 1867 to 1875 as a Republican member of the U.S. Senate. He then returned back again in the legal profession and ran unsuccessfully in 1880 for the post of Governor of Nebraska. Tipton died in 1899 in Washington and is buried there at the Rock Creek Cemetery.

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