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| Around the Capital (detail), engraving, Thomas Fleming, 1902, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
MARSHALL, Thomas Frank, a Representative from North Dakota; born in Hannibal, Marion County,
Mo., March 7, 1854; attended the common schools and the State normal school at
Platteville, Grant County, Wis.; left school in 1873 two months before
graduation, but received his diploma forty years later; became a surveyor;
moved to Yankton, Dak. (now South Dakota), in 1873 and engaged in mercantile
pursuits; moved to Columbia, Dak. (now North Dakota), in 1882 and engaged in
banking; moved in 1886 to Oakes, Dak., where he engaged in banking and
surveying; mayor 1888-1892; member of the State senate 1896-1900; delegate to
the Republican National Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3,
1909); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixtieth Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1908, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the
United States Senate; again engaged in banking; died at his summer home in
Detroit (now Detroit Lakes), Becker County, Minn., August 20, 1921; interment
in Oakesview Cemetery, Oakes, Dickey County, N.Dak.
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