Thomas J. Steele
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Thomas Jefferson Steele (March 19, 1853 - March 20, 1920) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born near Rushville, Indiana, Steele attended the public schools and Axline Seminary, Fairfax, Iowa. He taught school in central and western Iowa. He studied law at Sheldon, Iowa. He engaged in the hardware business and in banking at Wayne, Nebraska. County clerk of Wayne County, Nebraska from 1884 to 1886. He moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1897 and became a livestock commission merchant.
Steele was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917). He unsuccessfully contested the election of George C. Scott to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He resumed business as commission merchant. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He died in Sioux City, Iowa, March 20, 1920. He was interred in Graceland Park Cemetery.
