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Ewing, Thomas (Lawyer United States senator)

lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in West Liberty, Va. In 1830 he was elected to a seat in the United States senate from Ohio, where he remained until 1837.

He was a member of President Harrison's cabinet as secretary of the treasury in 1841; and on the accession of President Taylor to the presidency, in 1849, was invited into the cabinet, and took charge of the new department of the interior. In 1850 he was appointed to a seat in the United States senate, where he remained until 1851, when he retired from political life and resumed the practice of his profession in Ohio. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; also chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention in 1866, but did not take part in its proceedings. He died Oct. 26, 1871, in Lancaster, Ohio.