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Thomas, Philip Francis

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, governor, was born Sept. 12, 1810, in Easton, Md In 1836 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; and in 1838 was elected to the Maryland statelegislature.

He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841. He was subsequently judge of the land office court of the eastern shore of Mary- In land. In 1843 and 1845 he was elected to the house of delegates; and in 1847 was elected governor of Maryland. In 1860 he was appointed commissioner of the patent office; and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. 1867 he was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1873, but was rejected; and was subsequently elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress. He died Oct. 2, 1890, in Baltimore,