Thomas Updegraff

Thomas Updegraff ( born April 3, 1834 Tioga County, Pennsylvania, † October 4, 1910 in McGregor, Iowa) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1899 he represented twice the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Updegraff was a descendant of Abraham Isacks op den Graeff, who belonged to the so-called "Original 13", the first closed group of German emigrants to America. Thomas Updegraff attended private schools, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a school in Binghamton, New York. Between 1856 and 1860 he was a Clerk at the District Court in Clayton County, Iowa. After studying law and its made in 1860 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in McGregor.

Updegraff was a member of the Republican Party. In 1878 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. In the same year he was in the third electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodore Weld Burdick on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. For the 1882 elections, he was not confirmed.

After his time in the House of Representatives Thomas Updegraff was a member of the Education Committee and the City Attorney McGregor. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again in the fourth district of Iowa. There he took over on March 4, 1893, the mandate of Walter Butler Half. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1899 three further terms in Congress until March 3. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1898, Updegraff was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his final retirement from Congress he again worked as a lawyer. Thomas Updegraff died on 4 October 1910 in McGregor and was also buried there.

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