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Hugh French Thomason

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Name
  
Hugh Thomason

Role
  
Politician

Died
  
July 30, 1893


Hugh French Thomason (February 22, 1826 – July 30, 1893) was an American politician who served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.

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Early life

Thomason was born in Smith County, Tennessee, on February 22, 1826. His father moved to Washington County, Arkansas, when he was three years old. He was educated principally at Cane Hill, Arkansas, and studied law at Fayetteville, in the office of W. D. Reagan. He afterwards removed to Van Buren and engaged in the practice of law.

Political career

Thomason first came into prominence as a politician as presidential elector when he canvassed the state against the celebrated T. C. Hindman. He was prosecuting attorney of the Fourth judicial circuit from 1853 to 1854 and a member of the secession convention in 1861. In 1868 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature.

He was a candidate for congress in 1872 and was defeated by Judge W. W. Wilshire. He was one of the delegates to the congress of the Confederate States at Montgomery, Alabama, with Robert W. Johnson, Albert Rust, William W. Watkins, and Augustus H. Garland from May 18, 1861, to February 17, 1862. He represented Crawford County in the constitutional convention in 1874. he was elected State Senator in 1881 and attended two sessions of the state senate. He was returned to the lower house in 1886.

Later life

Thomason was elected judge of the 15th judicial circuit in September 1890, which position he held at the time of his death. He was buried at Van Buren, Arkansas, on July 31, 1893, with Masonic honors.

References

Hugh French Thomason Wikipedia