Thomas Sandford

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Thomas Sandford (176210 December 1808) was an American soldier and politician.

He was born in Westmoreland, Virginia in 1762; rose to General in the American War of Independence; settled in Kentucky, where he had been granted land, in 1792. In his political career he was a state representative and senator, then a representative in the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (1803-1807). He drowned in the Ohio River near Covington, Kentucky on 10 December 1808.