Lot Thomas

Lot Thomas (October 17, 1843 - March 17, 1905) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.

Born near Markleysburg, Pennsylvania, Thomas attended the public schools and Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio.He moved to Iowa in 1868.He taught school in New Virginia, Warren County.He attended the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City, and was admitted to the bar in 1870.He moved to Buena Vista County and settled at Storm Lake in 1870. Practiced law.He served as judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Iowa from 1885 until his resignation August 26, 1898, having become a candidate for Congress.

Thomas was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904.He died on a train near Yuma, Arizona, March 17, 1905, while en route to Los Angeles, California.He was interred in Storm Lake Cemetery, Storm Lake, Iowa.

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