- Thomas Gregory Skinner
"Thomas Gregory Skinner" (
January 22 ,1842 –December 22 ,1907 ) was a U.S. Representative fromNorth Carolina , brother ofHarry Skinner .Born near
Hertford, North Carolina , Skinner attended private schools,Friends Academy ,Belvidere, North Carolina , Horners Military School,Oxford, North Carolina , and theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He entered theConfederate States Army in May 1861 and served with the First Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, until the close of the Civil War, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and commenced practice inHertford, North Carolina .Skinner was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress on
November 20 ,1883 , to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofWalter F. Pool . He was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress and served fromNovember 20 ,1883 , toMarch 3 ,1887 .Skinner was again elected to the Fifty-first Congress (
March 4 ,1889 -March 3 ,1891 ) but in 1890 declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Fifty-second Congress, and resumed the practice of law in Hertford. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892 and 1904, and as a member of the State senate in 1899 and 1900. He died inBaltimore, Maryland onDecember 22 ,1907 , and was interred in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hertford, North Carolina.ources
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