Tobias A. Plants

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Tobias Avery Plants

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 15th district
In office March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1869
Preceded by	James R. Morris
Succeeded by	Eliakim H. Moore
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Meigs County district
In office January 4, 1858 – January 5, 1862
Preceded by	Alfred Thompson
Succeeded by	Edward Tiffany
Personal details
Born	(1811-03-17)March 17, 1811 Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Died	June 19, 1887(1887-06-19) (aged 76) Pomeroy, Ohio
Resting place	Beech Grove Cemetery, Pomeroy
Political party	Republican

Tobias Avery Plants (March 17, 1811 – June 19, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Plants apprenticed to a saddler at the age of twelve. He received a limited common school education. He attended Beaver College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. He taught school, and while teaching studied law with Edwin M. Stanton in the office of Judge David Powell at Steubenville, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Athens, Ohio, in 1846, but soon moved to Pomeroy, Ohio. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1858-1861. He was owner and publisher of the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph about 1860.

Plants was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1869). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868. He served as Common Pleas Judge in Meigs County from 1873 to 1875, when he resigned to resume the practice of law. A presidential elector for Garfield/Arthur in 1880,^[1] he served as president of the First City Bank of Pomeroy from 1878 until his death in Pomeroy on June 19, 1887. He was interred in Beech Grove Cemetery.

Notes

↑ Smith 1898 : 431-432

References

Tobias A. Plants at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.

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Sloane Allen Andrews Morris Kennon Hunter Sapp Burns Helmick Nugen Morris Plants Eliakim H. Moore Sprague Van Vorhes Geddes Dawes Warner Wilkins Grosvenor Harter Van Voorhis Dawes Joyce White Mooney White C. Ellis Moore Secrest Griffiths Secrest Henderson Moorehead Secrest Wylie Pryce Kilroy Stivers

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Persondata
Name	Plants, Tobias Avery
Alternative names
Short description	congressman
Date of birth	March 17, 1811
Place of birth	sewickley pennsylvania
Date of death	June 19, 1887
Place of death	pomeroy ohio

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