Charles S. Thomas

This article is about the former governor and U.S. senator from Colorado. For other uses, see Charles Thomas (disambiguation).
The Honorable
Charles Spalding Thomas
United States Senator
from Colorado
In office
January 15, 1913  March 3, 1921
Preceded by Charles J. Hughes, Jr.
Succeeded by Samuel D. Nicholson
11th Governor of Colorado
In office
January 10, 1899  January 8, 1901
Lieutenant Francis Patrick Carney
Preceded by Alva Adams
Succeeded by James Bradley Orman
Personal details
Born December 6, 1849
Darien, Georgia
Died June 24, 1934(1934-06-24) (aged 84)
Denver, Colorado
Political party Democratic
Alma mater University of Michigan
Military service
Service/branch Confederate States Army
Battles/wars American Civil War

Charles Spalding Thomas (December 6, 1849  June 24, 1934) was a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in Darien, Georgia he attended private schools in Georgia and Connecticut, and served briefly in the Confederate Army.

Biography

Thomas graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1871, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved to Colorado and began to practice in Denver, where he was a city attorney in 1875 and 1876. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1884 to 1896, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States House of Representatives in 1884, to the Senate in 1888 and 1895, and to the governorship in 1894.

Thomas served as the 11th Governor of Colorado from 1899 to 1901. In 1913, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1912 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles J. Hughes, Jr.; in 1914, he was reelected to a full term. Thomas served from January 15, 1913, to March 3, 1921, and was the last Confederate veteran to serve in the Senate.[1] In 1920, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection on the Nationalist ticket, receiving only 3% of the vote.[2]

In the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses, Thomas was chairman of the Committee on Woman Suffrage, and a member of the Committee on Coast Defenses (Sixty-fifth Congress) and the Committee on Pacific Railroads (Sixty-sixth Congress). He resumed the practice of law in Denver, where he died on June 24, 1934; his remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered in the mountains.

Notes

  1. "Civil War Veterans in the Senate". United States Senate. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. Page, William Tyler. "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Elections of November 6, 1934" (PDF). Clerk of the House of Representatives. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2006-10-25.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Alva Adams
Governor of Colorado
1899-1901
Succeeded by
James B. Orman
United States Senate
Preceded by
Charles J. Hughes, Jr.
U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Colorado
1913-1921
Succeeded by
Samuel D. Nicholson
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