Thomas D. Eliot

Infobox_Congressman
name=Thomas Dawes Eliot


state=Massachusetts
district=1st
term=1853 – 1855
1859 – 1869
preceded=Zeno Scudder (1853)
Robert Bernard Hall (1859)
succeeded=Robert Bernard Hall (1859)
James Buffinton (1869)
date of birth=birth date|1808|3|20|mf=y
place of birth=Boston, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1870|6|14|1808|3|20|mf=y
place of death=New Bedford, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party=Republican/Whig|

Thomas Dawes Eliot, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on March 20, 1808. He attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and graduated from Columbian College (now George Washington University in 1825. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Eliot served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Zeno Scudder and served from April 17, 1854, to March 3, 1855. He declined to be a candidate for renomination. Eliot was a delegate to the Free Soil Convention in Worcester in 1855.

He declined to be a candidate for nomination by the Republican for 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 on the Freedmen’s Bureau (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. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9192019 Thomas Dawes Eliot] Find-A-Grave, Russ Dodge, 2004-07-24]

USRepSuccessionBox
state=Massachusetts
district=1
before=Zeno Scudder
after=Robert B. Hall
years=April 17, 1854 – March 3, 1855USRepSuccessionBox
state=Massachusetts
district=1
before=Robert B. Hall
after=James Buffinton
years=March 41859 – March 3 1869

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* [http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mcc/051/cartes/028090fr.jpgphotograph of Thomas Eliot by Mathew B. Brady]