T. Millet Hand

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name = Thomas Millet Hand


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state = New Jersey
district = 2nd
party = Republican
term = January 3, 1945 – December 26, 1956
preceded = Elmer H. Wene
succeeded = Milton W. Glenn
date of birth = July 7, 1902
place of birth = Cape May, New Jersey
date of death = December 26, 1956
place of death = Cold Spring, New Jersey
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profession = Politician
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Thomas Millet Hand (July 7, 1902, Cape May, New Jersey – December 26, 1956, Cold Spring, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945-57.

Hand was born in Cape May, New Jersey on July 7, 1902, and attended the local public schools. He graduated in 1922 from the Dickinson School of Law, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Cape May, New Jersey. He was clerk of the Cape May County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1924-1928, and the prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County from 1928-1933. Hand served as the mayor of Cape May from 1937-1944, and was the publisher of the "Cape May Star and Wave" from 1940 until his death. He was also a partner in the Mecray-Hand Co., a real estate and insurance business. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000154 Thomas Millet Hand] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". Accessed August 16, 2007.]

Hand was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and had been reelected on November 6, 1956, to the Eighty-fifth Congress. He served in the House from January 3, 1945, until his death in Cold Spring, New Jersey on December 26, 1956.

His remains were cremated at Ewing Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey and interred in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery in Cape May.

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*CongBio|H000154
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hand.html#R9M0IZD2E Thomas Millet Hand] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6939802 Thomas Millet Hand] at Find A Grave