Thomas D. Eliot

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Thomas D. Eliot
Massachusetts State Senate
In office
1846
Personal details
Born
Thomas Dawes Eliot

(1808-03-20)March 20, 1808
Ida Eliot
Signature

Thomas Dawes Eliot (March 20, 1808 – June 14, 1870), was a Senator and Congressman of the

Eliot family
.

Life and career

Eliot was born on March 20, 1808, in

Boston, the son of Margaret Greenleaf (Dawes) and William Greenleaf Eliot.[2][3] He was named after his grandfather Justice Thomas Dawes of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.[1]

Eliot attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and graduated from Columbian College in the District of Columbia, (now George Washington University in 1825. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

In 1834 Eliot married Frances L. Brock of Nantucket.[1]

Eliot served as a member of the

Free Soil Convention in Worcester
in 1855.

He declined to be a candidate for nomination by the

Attorney General of Massachusetts in 1857. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1869). Eliot served as Chairman of the Committee Freedmen’s Affairs (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses), and the Committee on Commerce
(Fortieth Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868. He resumed the practice of law and died on June 14, 1870. His interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Eliot's daughter Ida M. Eliot was a notable educator and writer. Thomas Eliot's younger brother was philanthropist and Unitarian minister, William Greenleaf Eliot. His granddaughter Julia Meriam Stetson married with Dr. Leroy Milton Yale Jr., of the Yale family.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Hurd, Duane Hamilton Hurd (1883), History of Bristol County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 1, Philadelphia, PA: J. Lewis & CO., p. 10
  2. ^ https://rdc.reed.edu/i/5d58c281-c451-4ba7-991c-1a88adaca29d
  3. ^ "Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution". 1899.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district
April 17, 1854 – March 3, 1855 		Succeeded by
Robert B. Hall
Preceded by
Robert B. Hall
 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district
March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1869 		Succeeded by
James Buffington
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