David Thomas (New York)
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David Thomas (June 11, 1762 - November 27, 1831) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Pelham, Massachusetts, he completed preparatory studies, served as a volunteer in 1777, and joined the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment as a corporal in 1781, later becoming a sergeant in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He moved to Salem, New York in 1784, where he conducted a tavern for several years. He was commissioned a captain in the State militia in 1786 and rose to the rank of major general of the northern division of the Militia of New York in 1805. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1794 and from 1798 to 1899.
Thomas was supervisor of the town of Salem from 1797 to 1800, and was justice of the peace from 1798 to 1801 and in 1804 and 1811. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1801, to May 1, 1808, when he resigned; he served as treasurer of the State of New York from February 5, 1808, to February 8, 1810, and again from February 18, 1812, to February 10, 1813. He moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he died in 1831; interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Salem.
