Thomas Talbot (Massachusetts)

Infobox Governor
name = Thomas Talbot


imagesize = 150px
order = 7th Acting and 31st
office = Governor of Massachusetts
term_start = April 29, 1874
term_end = January 7, 1875 (acting)
January 2, 1879 – January 8, 1880
lieutenant = John Davis Long
predecessor = William B. Washburn (1874) (resigned)
Alexander H. Rice (1879)
successor = William Gaston (1875)
John Davis Long (1880)
birth_date = birth date|1818|9|7|mf=y
birth_place = Cambridge, New York
death_date = death date and age|1886|10|6|1818|9|7|mf=y
death_place = Lowell, Massachusetts
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
religion =
order2 = 29th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
term_start2 = 1873
term_end2 = 1874
governor2 = William B. Washburn
predecessor2 = Joseph Tucker
successor2 = Horatio G. Knight (1875)

Thomas Talbot (September 7, 1818ndash October 6, 1886) was a governor of Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge, New York, and grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, attending public school and later working there in a textile mill.

Talbot served many years in the Massachusetts legislature, sat in the governor's council from 1864 to 1869, and in 1872 was chosen lieutenant-governor, as a Republican. On the election of Governor William B. Washburn to the United States Senate in 1873, he became governor, but lost the election in 1874. In 1878 he was again elected and served until 1880. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts.

External links

* [http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/ttalbot.htm Commonwealth of Massachusetts Official Governor Biography]