Thomson J. Skinner

Thomson Joseph Skinner ( born May 24, 1752 in Colchester, Connecticut; † January 20, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1797 and 1804 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomson Skinner attended the public schools of his home. He later moved to Massachusetts, where he struck a political career. Between 1781 and 1803 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts and a member of the State Senate. In 1788 he was a delegate to the meeting at which the state of Massachusetts ratified the Constitution of the United States. End of the 1790s he became a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. From 1788 to 1807, including during his time as a congressman, he was appeal judges.

Following the resignation of Mr Theodore Sedgwick Skinner was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives at the due election for the first seat of Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on 27 January 1797. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1799 in Congress. In the elections of 1802 Skinner was elected to Congress again in the twelfth electoral district of his state, where he replaced Samuel Thatcher on March 4, 1803. This mandate he held until his resignation on 10 August 1804.

In the years 1806 and 1807 Skinner Minister of Finance of the State of Massachusetts. He died on January 20, 1809 in Boston.