Thomas C. Platt

Thomas C. Platt was a three term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881 and 1897-1909. Image File history File links Photo of United States Senator from New York Thomas C. Platt. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Early life

Thomas Collier Platt, a Representative and a Senator from New York was born in Owego, New York, July 15, 1833. He was prepared for college in the Owego Academy and attended Yale College in 1849 and 1850. In 1852 he engaged in business as a druggist and continued for twenty years. He was president of the Tioga National Bank and was interested in the lumbering business in Michigan. 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Yale College Wrexham is a college in Wrexham, Wales. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Political career

He was clerk of Tioga County 1859-1861. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third United States Congress and the Forty-fourth United States Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877). {{move}} // Dates of Sessions December 1, 1873 to March 3, 1875. ... // Forty-fourth United States Congress Dates of Sessions December 6, 1875 to March 3, 1877. ...

The Senate

He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1881, and served from March 4, 1881, to May 16, 1881, when he resigned because of a disagreement with President James Garfield over federal appointments in New York. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate to succeed himself. He was the chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh Congress). He was secretary and director of the United States Express Co. in 1879 and elected president of the company in 1880. He was a member and president of the Board of Quarantine Commissioners of New York 1880-1888. He was a member of the Republican National Committee and was elected to the United States Senate in 1896 and was reelected in 1903. He served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1909 and was not a candidate for reelection. He served as chairman of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-fifth Congress). He was on the Committee on Printing (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses), the Committee on Cuban Relations (Fifty-ninth Congress), the Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Fifty-ninth Congress). The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th (1881) President of the United States, the first left-handed President, and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. ...

His death

He died in New York City, March 6, 1910 and was interred in Evergeen Cemetery, Owego, N.Y.

Bibliography

• Dictionary of American Biography;
• Gosnell, Harold. Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others. 1924. Reprint. New York:
• AMS Press, 1969; Platt, Thomas Collier. The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt. Edited by Louis J. Lang. 1910. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1974.

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