Thomas Ryan (congressman)

Thomas Ryan (congressman)

Infobox Congressman
name=Thomas Ryan


width=200px
state=Kansas
district=3rd & 4th
party=Republican
term=March 4, 1877March 3, 1885 March 4, 1885April 4, 1889
preceded=William R. Brown "(none)"
succeeded=Bishop W. Perkins Harrison Kelley
date of birth=November 25, 1837
place of birth=Oxford, New York, USA
date of death=death date and age|1914|05|5|1837|11|25
place of death=Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer
religion=
footnotes=

Thomas Ryan (November 25, 1837April 5, 1914) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Kansas.

Born in Oxford, New York, Ryan moved to Bradford County, Pennsylvania with his parents, attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army from 1862 to 1864, moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1865 and served as prosecuting attorney of Shawnee County, Kansas from 1865 to 1873. Ryan was Assistant United States Attorney for Kansas from 1873 to 1877, was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1876, serving from 1877 to 1889 and was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Benjamin Harrison in 1889, serving until 1893. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior by President William McKinley in 1897, serving until 1907 when he was sent to Muskogee, Oklahoma as the personal resident representative of the Secretary of the Interior which he served as until his death in Muskogee on April 5, 1914. Ryan was interned in Topeka Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.

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