Thomas Whipple, Jr.

Thomas Whipple Jr. ( * 1787 in Lebanon, New Hampshire; † January 23, 1835 in Wentworth, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1829 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Whipple attended the public schools of his home. In 1811 he moved to Warren in New Hampshire. It was followed by a medical degree in Haverhill and Hanover. Until 1814, he also studied at Dartmouth College. After qualifying as a doctor he began practicing in Wentworth in his profession.

Although Whipple is joined no party, he made a political career. Between 1818 and 1820 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. In the congressional elections of 1820, which were held all across the state, he was for the fifth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1821 the successor of Arthur Livermore of the Democratic- Republican Party. After three re- elections, he was able to complete 1829 four contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In this time were political tensions between supporters of the two later President John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, who left their mark on the Congress.

After the end of his time in Congress Whipple again worked as a doctor. He died on 23 January 1835 in Wentworth. Apparently he had not coped with the death of his wife in 1823, so he got a drinking problem, on which he finally died.