Thomas Birch Florence

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Thomas Birch Florence (January 26, 1812–July 3, 1875) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Thomas B. Florence born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned the hatter's trade and engaged in that business in 1833. He was engaged in the newspaper business. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1846 and 1848.

Florence was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses. After leaving Congress edited and published the Constitutional Union in Washington, D.C., and subsequently became the proprietor of the Sunday Gazette.

He was an unsuccessful candidate in his old district for election in 1868 and in 1874. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1875. Interment in Monument Cemetery in Philadelphia.

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• Thomas Birch Florence at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Lewis C. Levin

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district 1851 - 1861

Succeeded by William E. Lehman