Thomas U. Sisson

Thomas Upton Sisson (* September 22 1869 in McCool, Attala County, Mississippi, † September 26, 1923 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1923 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Sisson came at a young age with his father in the Choctaw County in Mississippi, where he attended the public schools. He also graduated from the French Camp Academy, also in the state of Mississippi. Until 1889 he was at the South Western Presbyterian University in Clarksville ( Tennessee). With a law degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and Cumberland University in Tennessee Sisson finished his studies in 1894.

After his made ​​in 1894 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Winona in Montgomery County. Politically, Sisson member of the Democratic Party. In 1898 he was a member of the State Senate, from 1903 to 1907 he was district attorney for the fifth judicial district of Mississippi.

1908 Sisson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced Wilson S. Hill on March 4, 1909. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 a total of seven legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the First World War, the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage and the prohibition law. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was defeated in the primaries of his party T. Jeff Busby. Thomas Sisson died in September 1923 in Washington a few months after the end of his final term in Congress. He was buried in Winona.