Thompson W. McNeely

Thompson Ware McNeely ( born October 5, 1835 in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois; † July 23, 1921 in Petersburg, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thompson McNeely attended the public schools of his home and then the Jubilee College in Peoria. Then he studied until 1856 at Lombard College in Galesburg. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and his 1857 was admitted to the bar he began in St. Petersburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1862 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1868 McNeely was in the ninth constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lewis W. Ross on March 4, 1869. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1873 two legislative sessions. In 1872 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1872, 1892 and 1896 Thompson McNeely participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Since 1910, he practiced in Menard County, the Office of the Master in Chancery. He died on 23 July 1921 in Petersburg.