Thomas Rolph

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Thomas Rolph (January 17, 1885 - May 10, 1956) was a United States Representative from California. He was born in San Francisco, California. He attended the public schools and graduated from Humboldt Evening High School. In 1912, he founded a building materials sales agency, which he headed until his death.

Rolph was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He returned to his building material sales agency and died in San Francisco in 1956. He was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.