Timothy E. Tarsney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Timothy E. Tarsney

American politician

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1849

Place of Birth: Ransom Township, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1909

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Timothy E. Tarsney

  • Timothy Edward Tarsney (February 4, 1849 – June 8, 1909) was a politician from the U.S.
  • state of Michigan. Tarsney was born in Ransom, Michigan and attended the common and high schools.
  • He worked on the Government roads in Tennessee until the close of the Civil War.
  • When he returned to Michigan, he settled in Saginaw, where he was employed as a sawmill engineer and became a marine engineer in 1867.
  • He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1872 and was admitted to the bar the same year and commencing practice in East Saginaw.
  • He was elected justice of the peace in 1873 and city attorney from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned.
  • His brother, John Charles Tarsney, was a U.S.
  • Representative from Missouri.
  • His sister Mary E.
  • Tarsney married Thomas A.
  • E.
  • Weadock who became a U.S.
  • Representative from Michigan after her death. In 1880, Tarsney was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 47th United States Congress, losing to Roswell G.
  • Horr.
  • He was a delegate at-large to the Democratic National Convention in 1884.
  • That year, he defeated Horr to be elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 49th Congress.
  • He defeated Horr again to be re-elected to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889.
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1888, losing to Aaron T.
  • Bliss. Tarsney moved to Detroit in 1893 and resumed the practice of law.
  • He served on the corporation counsel of Detroit from 1900 to 1908.
  • The following year, he died at the age of sixty in Detroit and is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Saginaw, Michigan.

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