Leroy D. Thoman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American judge
Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1851
Date of Death: 19-Apr-1909
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Leroy D. Thoman
- Leroy Delano Thoman (July 31, 1851 – April 19, 1909) was an American judge and civil service commissioner. Thoman was born in Salem, Ohio, July 31, 1851.
- He was educated in the common schools and became a teacher at the age of sixteen.
- After five years of teaching, he studied the law and was admitted to the bar.
- Shortly thereafter, Thoman was appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Ninth Judicial District of Indiana.
- In January 1873, he resigned his position and moved to Youngstown, Ohio to practice law there, forming a partnership with Isaac A.
- Justice.
- In 1875, he was elected county judge of Mahoning County, and remained on the bench for six years.
- In 1876, he married Mary E.
- Cripps, but she died that same year.Thoman became involved with Democratic politics in Ohio and, in 1880, presided over the party's state convention.
- That same year, he ran for Congress in Ohio's 17th congressional district against William McKinley, but was unsuccessful.
- He retired from the bench in 1882 and resumed his law practice, representing the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad.
- The next year, after the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, President Chester A.
- Arthur nominated Thoman to be one of three members of the United States Civil Service Commission.
- He served in that office until 1885.
- In 1887, he moved to Chicago and worked to bring the World's Fair there.
- Thoman married again to Florence B.
- Smith in 1892.
- They had one daughter, Dorothy, born in 1893.
- Thoman died at his home in Evanston, Illinois, in 1909.
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