Thomas Pelly

This article is about American politician. For the Australian Rugby player, see Tom Pelly.

Thomas Minor Pelly (22 August 1902 – 21 November 1973), an American politician born in Seattle, Washington,[1] served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1953 to 1973. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican. Due to health concerns, he did not run for re-election in 1972. Pelly died while in California in 1973.[1] Pelly is interred at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park.[1]

He was the grandson of Thomas T. Minor, an early Seattle mayor.

1968 election

In 1968, Pelly was challenged by John E. McCluskey, a Democrat from Seattle.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Biographical directory of the United States Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000196, retrieved 2010-02-07 Missing or empty |title= (help)
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Hugh Mitchell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Washington's 1st congressional district

1953  1973
Succeeded by
Joel Pritchard