- David Thomas (New York)
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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 asergeant in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He moved to Salem, New York, in 1784, where he had atavern for several years. He was commissioned acaptain in theNew York State Militia in 1786 and rose to the rank ofmajor 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 wasjustice 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 Congress es, and served fromMarch 4 ,1801 , toMay 1 ,1808 , when he resigned.He was
New York State Treasurer fromFebruary 5 ,1808 , toFebruary 8 ,1810 , and again fromFebruary 18 ,1812 , toFebruary 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.ources
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomas2.html Political Graveyard]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35 and 309; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (Google Books)]
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