Thomas Tillotson
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Thomas Tillotson (1750 - 1832) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
He was born in Maryland in 1750. He received a thorough education, studied medicine, and practiced. During the Revolutionary War, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Maryland Militia in 1776. He was appointed by Congress as a physician and surgeon general of the Northern Department of the Army in 1780; he served until the close of the war. Afterward, he settled in New York and engaged in the practice of medicine.
Thomas Tillotson served as a member of the New York State Assembly from Red Hook, Dutchess County from 1788 to 1790. He served in the New York State Senate from 1791 to 1799. In 1791, he was also a member of the Council of Appointment. He was elected to the Seventh Congress, but did not qualify or take his seat and resigned August 10, 1801. He was Secretary of State of New York from August 10, 1801 until March 15, 1806, and from February 16, 1807 until June 31, 1808.
He died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York on May 5, 1832. He was interred in the vault in the rear of Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church.
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