David Thomas (New York politician)

See David Thomas for similarly named people

David Thomas (June 11, 1762 Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts - November 27, 1831 Providence, Rhode Island) was an American politician.

Life

Thomas served as a volunteer in 1777, and joined the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment as a corporal in 1781, later becoming a sergeant in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He moved to Salem, New York, in 1784, where he had a tavern for several years. He was commissioned a captain in the New York State Militia in 1786 and rose to the rank of major general of the northern division of the militia in 1805.

He was a member from Washington and Clinton counties of the New York State Assembly in 1794, and from Washington County from 1798 to 1800, a supervisor of the Town of Salem from 1797 to 1800, and was justice of the peace from 1798 to 1801, in 1804 and 1811.

Thomas was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1801, to May 1, 1808, when he resigned.

He was New York State Treasurer from February 5, 1808, to February 8, 1810, and again from February 18, 1812, to February 10, 1813. Afterwards he moved to Providence, R.I., where he died in 1831. He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Salem, N.Y.

Sources

• David Thomas (New York politician) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Political Graveyard
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35 and 309; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (Google Books)

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by John Thompson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 7th congressional district 1801 - 1803	Succeeded by Josiah Hasbrouck
New district	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 12th congressional district 1803 - 1808	Succeeded by Nathan Wilson
Political offices
Preceded by Abraham G. Lansing	New York State Treasurer 1808 - 1810	Succeeded by Abraham G. Lansing
Preceded by Abraham G. Lansing	New York State Treasurer 1812 - 1813	Succeeded by Charles Z. Platt

Persondata
Name	Thomas, David
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	June 11, 1762
Place of birth
Date of death	November 27, 1831
Place of death