Thomas Turner (Congressman)

Thomas Turner ( born September 10, 1821 in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, † September 11, 1900 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Turner first visited the Richmond Academy and then to 1840, the Centre College in Danville. After a subsequent law studies at the Transylvania Law School in Lexington and his 1842 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Richmond in this profession. From 1845 to 1846 he worked as a prosecutor. After that he took part as a simple soldier on the Mexican-American War. In November 1854 Turner moved to Mount Sterling, where he practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1861 and 1863 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Turner was the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John D. White on March 4, 1877. After a re-election in 1878 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1880 he lost his predecessor White, who thus its successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. After retiring from Congress, Thomas Turner withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died in September 1900 in Mount Sterling.

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