Thomas Hale Sill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas Hale Sill

American politician

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1783

Place of Birth: Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1856

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Thomas Hale Sill

  • Thomas Hale Sill (October 11, 1783 – February 7, 1856) was a Jacksonian and National Republican member of the U.S.
  • House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Thomas Hale Sill was born in Windsor, Connecticut.
  • He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1804, after beginning his college studies at Williams College in 1799.
  • He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Ohio.
  • He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1813 and resumed the practice of law.
  • He was a member of the staff of General Wallace and also a member of the Minutemen of the state militia.
  • He was a deputy United States marshal from 1816 to 1818.
  • He served as burgess of Erie from 1816 to 1817 and deputy attorney general in 1819. Sill was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1823.
  • He was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Patrick Farrelly.
  • He again served as burgess of Erie in 1829.
  • He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress.
  • He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1830.
  • He repeated his service as burgess of Erie in 1833. He served as President of the Erie branch of the Second Bank of the United States in 1837.
  • He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania constitutional convention in 1837 and 1838.
  • He served one final time as burgess of Erie from 1843 to 1844.
  • He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848.
  • He served as postmaster of Erie from 1847 to 1853, and as a director of the Erie Academy for more than thirty years.
  • He engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in Erie in 1856.
  • He is buried in Erie Cemetery.

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